Current events portfolio (25%): Students will keep a portfolio of world political events that correspond to the topics covered in the course. Feel free to choose any events you like. You will need to clip (or print), save, and analyze 10 articles related to topics that reflect the major themes covered in class: institutions, bargaining, cooperation, conflict, power, and sovereignty. These themes overlap and will subsume multiple issues. Your job will be collect articles across multiple issue areas that reflect these themes. Your analysis should discuss how the event described in the article reflects elements of multiple themes. For instance, an article on the economic crisis in the European Union may fit under any of the themes. So would an article about potential United Nations or NATO intervention in Syria. I encourage you to think about these points of connection and think broadly about the topics. Each article analysis should be 1-2 pages.

Articles should be taken *only* from The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Der Spiegel, or The Financial Times, and The Economist. It is ok to use the online version, but you will need to clip, save, and comment on the articles. Completed portfolios are due on November 25th.

you can not use articles that published before August 2013