Project: Video: Social Change as Nation Building: 
Myanmar, the Post Soviet Revolutions, the Arab Spring & Other Instances
Your Mission, should you decide to accept it:
Answer the questions found below as a group. 
Hand in one answer with everyone's name. 
1.  First & last & in alphabetical order by last name. 
      - Include only members who are present. 
2.  Indicate the date:  _____________________ 		 3.  Indicate the name of the class. 
4.  Indicate the name of the Project. 
Be thorough; write good answers. 
Use your time wisely. 
Be finished by the end of the allowed time. 
Project: Social Change as Nation Building: 

In the 90s, there were several mostly conflict free 'revolutions' as former Soviet satellite nations severed many ties w/ the Soviet Union where their totalitarian leadership began to allow some freedoms 

In the 2000s, Myanmar experience a mostly conflict free 'revolution' as its totalitarian leadership began to allow some freedoms 

In the 2010s, the Arab Spring occurred where a mixture of a mostly conflict free 'revolution' & some less than civil war conflicted 'revolutions' occurred where their totalitarian leadership began to allow some freedoms 

1.  Is it likely or unlikely that social change toward freedom, democracy, liberty, etc., will continue to emerge around the world in the coming decades?  Is it inevitable? 

2.  Should Western nations, ie the US & other democratic nations be involved in active social change that is throwing off totalitarian leadership? 

3.  Why or why not?  What are the advantages?  What are the dangers? 

4.  How?  That is, how should we be involved?  What should we do? 

5.  Should Western nations, ie the US & other democratic nations 'seed' such social change in nations not 'naturally' experiencing moves to democracy?

6.  Why or why not?  What are the advantages?  What are the dangers? 

7.  How?  That is, how should we be involved?  What should we do? 

8.  Should Western nations, ie the US & other democratic nations stay completely uninvolved in such social change as throwing off totalitarian leadership? 

9.  Why or why not?  What are the advantages?  What are the dangers? 

10.  How?  That is, how should we be uninvolved?  What should we do? 

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