Political Issues Worksheet

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Excerpt:

In politics the shifting balance between democracy and communist and authoritarian forms of government offers a link between the past and future. Western democratic regimes seem firmly rooted and more recent democracies such as Japan and India appear solid.  Democratic impulses are spreading throughout the world and already have ended many authoritarian governments. Perhaps liberal democracy will be the new general form of government, but there are challenges to it in Africa and Latin America, while authoritarian regimes in China and the Middle East, continue.(Stearns, 890) (Click here to return to the WebQuest)

Directions:

Using the links provided in the WebQuest as well as print recourses and electronic resources that you discover on your own, print out this page and answer the following questions. You may list more then one issue if you wish. Political issues should vary from region to region however, should you find that some regions face similar issues, please explain how that issue varies from region to region. Make sure to do the entire worksheet, including the questions at the end of the worksheet.

Regional Questions: (Answer these questions for each region below)

1. What do you believe is the most important political issue (positive or negative) faced in each of the following regions of the world?
2. Do you believe this issue will still exist in the future in this area?
3. How might this issue evolve over the next 25 to 26 years?

North America (The US and Canada)
 
 

Latin America (Mexico to Argentina)
 
 

Sub Saharan Africa
 
 

The Middle East (including North Africa)
 
 

Central and Western Europe
 
 

Russia and the former Soviet Republics
 
 

Far East Asia (China, Japan, and the Korean Peninsula)
 
 

East and Southeast Asia (India to Vietnam)
 
 

Oceania (Australia and the nations of the Pacific)
 
 

Final Questions: (Answer these questions in the numbered spots below)

1. In order, list what you believe are the three most important political issues (positive or negative) faced by the world today?

Issue #1)
Issue #2)
Issue #3)

2. Do you believe these issues will still exist in the future?

Issue #1)
Issue #2)
Issue #3)

3. How might these issues evolve over the next 25 to 26 years?

Issue #1)
 

Issue #2)
 

Issue #3)