Midterm Course Evaluations

Today, I handed out progress reports assessing your performance in this course to date. Now, I would like you to assess my progress.

Please head to the link below and fill out the midterm course evaluation. Most of the questions are required, excepting the final free response question. It should take you five minutes, at most.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3P6G7TJ

I am looking to get 75% saturation on this survey, and I won't stop bugging you until I get it.

Unlike end-of-course evaluations, these will actually help me make this class better, rather than the next one I teach. Thus, if you think you can benefit from some changes (or strongly believe things should stay the same), here is your chance to let me know--anonymously.

Current Events Reading: 3/01

Please read and come prepared to discuss the articles in the latest edition of the Economist.

Note: Friday's class will be a bit different than previous current event discussions. It will be closer to our usual lecture-cum-discussion style, and it will incorporate the readings you were assigned on Wednesday.

Be prepared to discuss how the following stories relate to the challenges to sovereignty and the "wars of globalization" discussed in the previous class' readings:

• Syria
• The Death of a Country
• The Country Formerly Known as Syria
• China and Corporate Espionage
• China's Cyber-hacking: Getting Ugly
• Cybercrime: Smoking Gun
• Who Needs Cyber-spying?
• Narcotics Decriminalization
• Illegal Drugs: The Great Experiment
• Towards a Ceasefire
• Harm Reduction: Shoots up and Leaves
• Europe's Financial Transactions Tax: Bin It
• Jamaica: Lenten Diet
• Canada's Inuit: Polar Bear Politics
• Malaysia Invaded: The Sultan's Sabah Swing
• Jordan's Election: Calming Down
• Bulgarian Politics: Power Protests
• Charlemagne: Johnnie Don't Walk Out
• Bankers' Pay: Cap and Flayed