Public Policy Topics

Topics

• The need for early civilizations to create a legal system (4000 BC-500 AD)

Justice, Decision Making, Political Systems, Citizenship, Power

• The rise and fall of great empires (4000 BC-500 AD)

Human/Physical Geography, Cultural and Intellectual Life, Movement of People and Goods, Technology, Power

• The challenges that confronted the developing empires: the Gupta Empire (320-550 AD), Tang and Song Dynasty (618-1126 AD), Byzantine Empire (330-1453 AD)

Human/Physical Geography, Cultural and Intellectual Life, Interdependence, Diversity

• The political, social, and economic problems of medieval Europe (500-1400)

Economic Systems, Factors of Production, Political Systems, Belief Systems

• The rise and fall of the Mongols and of the African civilizations (1200-1650)

Human/Physical Geography, Interdependence, diversity, Urbanization, Movement of People and Goods, Conflict, Belief Systems

• The challenges to the power of the Roman Catholic Church (1400-1650)

Belief Systems, Conflict, Change, Nationalism

• The decline of feudalism and the rise of European nation states (1400-1650)

Nationalism, Nation State, Conflict, Political Systems, Power, Decision Making

• The problems related to the encounters between Europeans and Africans, the Americas, and Asians

Conflict, Economic Systems, Movement of People and Goods

• The problems resulting from absolutism (1450-1800)

Conflict, Culture and Intellectual Life, Decision Making, Power, Citizenship

• The problems for traditional authority posed by the scientific revolution (1450-1770)

Science and Technology, Change

• Problems related to industrialization and urbanization (1750-1914)

Human/Physical Geography, Change, economic Systems, Urbanization, Factors of Production, Environment, Human Rights, Conflict

• Imperialism (1750-1914)

Imperialism, Economic Systems, Factors of Production, Political Systems

• World War I and II (1900-1945)

Nationalism, Imperialism, Conflict, Diversity, Political Systems

• The 20th Century Since 1945 (1945-Present)

The Cold War

• The 20th Century Since 1945 (1945-Present)

The Role of the United Nations

(These are only a sample of the topics and themes for developing global social problems)