CWI: CBA
• Objective: you are
successful if you have
started to write your
paper
• Agenda:
1. Check Work
2. Model Reasoning by
Comparison and Contrast
3. Introduce the Graphic
Organizers
4. Go to work writing the
paper
• Date: 05/28/14
• HW: Complete writing
the introduction and at
least one body paragraph.
• Entry Task: You need your
laptop out and ready to
go.
Goal
• Goal: you are aiming at critically analyzing
source materials
• Success Criteria: You are successful if you
have at least eight sources, they are OPVL’d
and you have begun writing the paper.
• Previous Learning: Finding and Locating
Sources
• Transfer: Being a literate and functional
citizen
Reasoning by Comparison and
Contrast
• Data set #2: Traditional US interests plus
democracy
• Source: Dessouki, A. E. H., & Korany, B. (2008).
Globalization and Arab Foreign Policies:
Constraints or Marginalization? In B. Korany &
A. E. H. Dessouki (Eds.), The Foreign Policies of
Arab States: The Challenges of Globalization
(pp. 45-65). Cairo: The American University in
Cairo Press.
The Excerpt
Since its founding, the US has perceived itself as a champion
for democracy. The collapse of the Soviet Union and similar
authoritarian states was seen as a fulfillment of an American
dream. The ‘empire of evil’ had been defeated, and a new
wave of democracy was underway. Thus, democratization
became an important component of the globalization process.
The events of 9/11 gave new impetus to the US spread of
democracy policy and led to a major reorientation of the Bush
administration’s foreign policy in the Middle East. Democracy
promotion was added to traditional US interests in the
region such as oil, stability, and Israel. The new ‘Bush
Doctrine’ underlined the active pursuit of democracy in all
regions of the world. (quoted from pp. 56-57)
How it answers the question:
• The United States invaded Iraq because after
09/11 it added democracy promotion as a key
and new ingredient to be added to the
traditional mix of American foreign policy
goals.
Reasoning by Comparison and
Contrast
• Data Set #3: Neoconservatives influence
foreign policy
• Source: Hayden, T. (2007). Ending the war in
Iraq. Pp.39-43. New York: Akashic Books.
The Excerpt
• George W. Bush was a high school cheerleader who avoided the draft, the
antiwar movement, and any association with counterculture. “I got into politics
initially because I wanted to help change a culture,” he told conservative
columnist David Brooks in 2006.
•
Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynne, University of Wisconsin
graduate students in 1967, were stepping over the bodies of fellow students
blockading buildings in protest of the Vietnam War. In 1968, Cheney worked on
legislation for Republican congressman to cut off federal funding to universities
where protests were occurring. Lynne Cheney became a ferocious critic of 1960s
curriculum reforms during her tenure at the National Endowment for the
Humanities.
•
Karl Rove leaped into high school classroom discussions “denouncing Tom
Hayden and the Weathermen and Students for a Democratic Society,” according
to a biography. He became executive director of the College Republicans during
the Watergate period, allied himself with Young Americans for Freedom, and
specialized in dirty tricks, which he called “pranks.”
•
Ronald Reagan came to power attacking the “filthy speech movement” (or
the Free Speech Movement of 1964-65) at the University of California, Berkeley.
He collaborated with the FBI to identify radical professors and unseat the UC
president, Clark Kerr.
How it answers the question:
• This document suggests that President Bush is
part of a movement within the Republican
party that became disgusted with the social
and political changes of the nineteen-sixties.
They created this “neoconservative” or new
conservative movement which sought to
extend U.S. interests abroad.
Similarities and Differences
Similarities
Differences
Both documents suggest that the
Bush administration ushered in a new
era in foreign policy. This was known
as the “Bush Doctrine.”
Both documents agree that
traditional interests like oil, stability
and Israel are very important.
Both documents reference the
collapse of the Soviet Union as a
fulfillment of the American dream.
The article involving neoconservatism
emphasizes the effect of the Vietnam
War rather than the end of the Cold
War.
The neoconservative article is written
in a way that mocks President Bush
for being a “high school cheerleader
who avoided the draft” rather than
celebrating him for democracy
promotion.
The articles involving
neoconservatism emphasizes all the
influences on President Bush rather
than just the Bush doctrine.