Current World Problems
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2021
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Current World Problems is an online, interactive course package that blends history and political science theory with the author’s professional experiences to help students learn to analyze current issues across the globe.
Unique to the market, this online course package is intended to be flexible, so instructors can agilely react if and when major events happen. Some seemingly remote events can trigger worldwide reactions and fundamental shifts in public opinions, norms, and preferences.
Students will possess the knowledge and skills to react, act, and proact to current world problems—and in turn, craft current world solutions.
Current World Problems is divided into four sections:
- Block 1: The Modern World makes connections between historic and modern events. Current world problems do not occur in vacuums, with some modern issues tracing back through centuries of human history.
- Block 2: Demographics, Health, and the Environment examines human aspects of globalization. Human migration patterns both historic and modern have encouraged cultural melting pots and have resulted in cultural conflicts and disparities.
- Block 3: The Flow of Goods and Capital primarily centers on global trade and finance, which on the one hand increases global prosperity while on the other hand creates additional state and cultural wealth disparities.
- Block 4: Global Conflict examines the full range of organized human conflict ranging from the ongoing war on terror to current disputes between great power nuclear states.
Block 1: The Modern World
Chapter 1: People, Places, and Past
Chapter 2: Sovereignty and its Challenges
Chapter 3: Democratization and Human Rights
Block 2: Demographics, Health, and the Environment
Chapter 4: Demogaphics and Culture
Chapter 5: Human Health
Chapter 6: The Environment
Block 3: The Flow of Goods and Capital
Chapter 7: Global Finance
Chapter 8: Global Trade
Chapter 9: Inequality, Poverty, and Crime
Block 4: Global Conflict
Chapter 10: The State, Conflict, and Diplomacy
Chapter 11: The War on Terror
Chapter 12: Weapons Proliferation
James D. Fielder (Ph.D., Political Science, The University of Iowa) is a political science instructor at Colorado State University and retired from the U.S. Air Force as a Lieutenant Colonel and Associate Professor of Political Science at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He is also serving as a Marine Corps University Non-Resident Krulak Fellow for academic years 2021-2023, is the Chief Operating Officer for Mobius Worlds Publishing, and consults on organizational wargaming, crisis response exercises, and scenario planning. Dr. Fielder researches interpersonal trust and emergent political processes through cyber-based interaction, and through tabletop and live-action gaming as natural experiments. He serves on the editorial board of the journal Simulation & Gaming has over two decades of experience designing, executing, and assessing training exercises and wargames, from small-group tabletop discussions to multi-day exercises engaging over 5,000 participants. During his military service, Dr. Fielder served as a Persian-Farsi linguist and electronic warfare specialist in the U.S. Army and was honorably discharged at the rank of Sergeant. He was then commissioned through the U.S. Air Force’s Officer Training School and served as an intelligence officer and two academic tours at USAFA. He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal in 2014 for meritorious achievement in Afghanistan.