You can watch Dr. Parag Khanna’s TED talk .

 

1] What does Khanna say about the number of formal national borders in the World and why this might have grown in recent decades? 10 points

 

2] PICK 3 FROM THE FOLLOWING 4 QUESTIONS

• 2a) What does he say about how national boundaries in East Asia (China,  Mongolia, South East Asia) arebeing ‘bridged’ by various different types of economic, political and cultural connections? 10 points
• 2b) What does he say about how national boundaries and connections in the Middle East (Iraq, Palestine, former Ottoman Empire lands) mightbe bridged by different types of economic, political, and cultural connections? 10 points
• 2c) What does he say about how national boundaries and connections in Russia and the former Soviet Republics of Central Asia (the 5 ‘Stans’) are or might bebridged by different types of economic, political, and cultural connections? 10 points
• 2d) What does he say about how national boundaries and connections in Europe (and Mediterranean North Africa, Turkey and the Balkans) are or might bebridged by different types of economic, political, and cultural connections? 10 points

 

3] Khanna doesn’t say anything about the U.S. – what might he have said about connectivity into and out of the U.S. ? (hints: borders, people movement, cultural influence/exchange, trade deals, military unions etc.). 10 points

 

TRY TO USE MAPS [OR SCREENSHOTS OF MAPS USED IN THE TALK] TO ILLUSTRATE YOUR POINTS

 

TRY TO KEEP YOUR RESPONSE TO EACH QUESTION TO NOT MORE THAN 150 WORDS – for question 2 that means 150 on each of the 3 sub-parts [i.e. not more than 450 words]

 

note word count does not include the question heading

 

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