Question

Vocabulary: Please define the following in your own words.

Consumerism
Environmental Change
Extremism
Pandemics
Postmodernism


Inquiry questions:

a) How do some contemporary issues raise questions about the viability of liberalism?
b) How does postmodernism challenge liberalism?
c) How does extremism challenge liberalism?
d) How extremism challenge tolerance?
e) What are some forms of economic extremism?

a) What solutions to contemporary issues are supported by the principles of liberalism?
b) How is consumerism a liberal issue?
c) What are some of the unanticipated consequences of liberalism?
d) How is environmental activism a solution to problems caused by liberalism?
e) How are international agreements like the Kyoto protocol potentially solutions to the problems caused by liberalism?
f) How has economic liberalism helped China and India to develop?
g) How can liberal democracies balance freedom with the need to stop global pandemics?
h) How can liberalism provide solutions to water shortages?
i) How is water becoming a political issue?

Answer 1

A) Major examples of modern liberal policy programs include the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the New Frontier, the Great Society, and the Affordable Care Act.

B) Postmodernists believe that many situations which are considered political in nature can not be adequately discussed in traditional realist and liberal approaches to political science.

C) In its most extreme form, neoclassical liberalism advocated social Darwinism. Right-libertarianism is a modern form of neoclassical liberalism.

D) It undermines peace and security, human rights and sustainable development. No country or region is immune from its impacts. Violent extremism is a diverse phenomenon, without clear definition. It is neither new nor exclusive to any region, nationality or system of belief.

E) Extremism and radicalisation can happen in many different ways and it is important that we define and understand the different types of extremism and radicalisation.

Domestic Extremism.

Violent Extremism.

Radicalization.