Tuesday April 16: your nation's best strategies

All nations have needs for various resources, and varying abilities to make use of those resources. Nations engage in trade and diplomacy and go to war for the sake of these resources. Now it's time to consider what sort of strategies might best suit your nation in its pursuit of greater power and prosperity.

Please answer the following questions using not less than three paragraphs of three complete sentences for each answer. Send your answers my way in the body of an email, with your names and your country's name and the phrase "Nations best strategies" in the subject line

cheers,
Mr. L

A) One of the strategies we examined last week about gaining access to another nation's -- resources "your" nation does not have is  by war. Describe a war strategy that can get you what you want, while lessening or eliminating the the risks to you of an armed conflict

B) You have proposed a more than reasonable trade agreement with another nation, yet their government stubbornly refuses to even enter into negotiations -- they won't even sit down and talk. Outline a strategy that is NOT war to make the government of this other nation come to its senses

C) You are a government leader in one country. You are in contact with business leaders in another country; corporate leaders who can provide your nation resources which it needs. You can make it legal for these foreign business leaders to sell their resources in your nation, but you don't want this to become public knowledge. List and explain four different plans which would make this happen

D) Your nation wants very badly to sell its resources to "country X" However, country X allows a free press-- newspapers, radio stations and TV can all say whatever they want, whenever they like. One of the things they like talking about is the truly horrible working conditions in the places in your country where these important resources are found. Please list and explain at least four different steps you can take to make these media outlets see the "better side" of your nation

PS At some point during class, I will be picking out at least one answer to one of these questions from each group. I will post these answers, and each group will critique at least two of the plans made by other groups -- details on this to follow