POL3312/POLM156 Second Assessment
The second assessment for this module consists of one essay) on a chosen topic of roughly 2500 words (for POL3312) and of roughly 4500 words (for POLM156. However, it may be good in the next week or so if you could let me know the question you would like to address so that I can confirm that it is suitable for this module. Remember, the question has to be relevant to the topics covered during the second part of this module.
Below you find a number of typical questions that students were asked to write about in the past years, so to help you to formulate your own question. If you wish, you can use one of these questions, or a revised version of them. But you are free to choose your own question.
1. What kind of reforms do constitutional states require in order to accommodate the value of multicultural diversity and recognition with that of individual equality?
2. Discuss the differences between multicultural politics and a politics of assimilation with particular regard to how each of them may facilitate cooperation, tolerance, and civic integration.
3. Should migrant communities be afforded special rights, like language rights, or special dispensations for some of their cultural or religious traditions?
4. What kind of policies and/or special entitlements can redress the injustices done to indigenous populations conquered during the colonial period?
5. To what extent the rise of economic globalisation and in particular the increase of the power of TNCs is eroding the capacity of nation states to operate autonomously and independently?
6. Discuss Dani Rodrik’s Trilemma of deep economic integration, national sovereignty, and democratic self-government.
7. Is the system of supranational organizations regulating the international legal system and the global economy the basis for a future more integrated global and cosmopolitan order?
8. Can the EU be a model for a new form. of regional democratic form. of governance?
9. Does increased globalization create demands and justification for forms of regional or more global transnational governance?
10. Does globalization benefit the Global South and the Global North in the same way?
11. Have globalization and the digital revolution created the conditions for a global civil society?
12. What are the main lessons from postcolonial struggles and from postcolonial theories that we should learn in our more globalized and postcolonial world?
13. Does the current pandemic make cosmopolitanism more convincing? Are we, in some respect, all citizens of the world? And if so, what is the best institutional framework to support some form. of global citizenship?
Deadline for submission is Friday 12 December 2025 before 14.00