LSE100

“Why must we understand politics and society in order to better understand the complex relationship between crime and punishment?”

LSE100 “Most financial crises are caused by a mix of stupidity and greed and recklessness and risk-taking and hope.” (Former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, 25 April 2012.) Discuss with respect to the Global Financial Crisis.

‘In a globalised world, should power be shifted from the national to the supra-national level? Consider both the desirability and the feasibility of cosmopolitanism’.

Can transnational governance (Hoffman 2013), such as Falkner’s building blocks approach, overcome the principal obstacles to global collective action on climate change? Draw on both economic and IR theories in your answer."

****DISTINCTION** ‘What are the advantages of applying a multidisciplinary perspective to analysis of complex events? Discuss with reference to two of the three modules you have studied over the Lent term (Climate change, Nationalism and Cold War).’

The Cold War was ultimately an ideological confrontation. As such, its end was essentially caused by the defeat of the ideas defended by the Eastern bloc’. Discuss.