POLI330N Week 5 Assignment: Current Event-Totalitarian Restrictions or Ethnic Conflict
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Description
Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:
- Textbook: Chapters 8, 9
- Lesson (Links to an external site.)
- Citation and Writing Assistance: Writing Papers At CU (Links to an external site.)
- Library Overview (Links to an external site.)
- How to Search for Articles – the Everything Tab (Links to an external site.)
- Article (no more than one-month old) from reputable news source such as The New York Times or The Washington Post
Instructions
Write a paper on a current event article that discusses restrictions on freedoms by a totalitarian state or an article on ethnic conflict within a nation. Summarize the article and explain why this issue is important to the global community. What outside influences might help change this issue? How? Is the article neutral? Why or why not?
Be sure to include a scanned copy of the article in your submission in addition to citations. Articles may not be more than one month old.
Writing Requirements (APA format). Refer to the APA manual.
- Length: 3 full pages (not including the title or references page)
- 1-inch margins
- Double-Spaced
- 12-point Times New Roman font
- Title and Reference page required
- APA cite article with link
- Scan copy of article required
Grading
This activity will be graded based on the Assignment Grading Rubric.
Course Outcomes (CO): 3 & 5
Due Date for Follow-Up Posts: By 11:59 p.m. MT on Sunday
Rubric
POLI330 Week 5 International Event Rubric
Solution
COVID-19 and authoritarian regimes
COVID-19 has presented an opportunity for dictatorial regimes to grab power and suppress dissidents globally. Some nations have imposed restrictions on fundamental freedoms such as movements, association, even sociopolitical, and economic rights. Totalitarian states have also used the pandemic circumstances to impose restrictive policies that have minimal bearing to the containment of COVID-19. For instance, the New York Times reported Israel’s new attempts to impose mobile surveillance on its citizens, which is a breach of their right to privacy. Israel has rolled out technological tools that track the location of people and notifies them if they have been close to a person with the contagious virus (Bateman, 2020). The article on BBC observes that Israel has used covert systems to track people’s movements in the pretext of controlling the spread of COVID-19. The report explores Israel’s cyber-superpower and choice to choose surveillance against the right to privacy in its fight against the……………..
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