You are asked in this assignment to address whether cooperation on the transnational challenges we have covered thus far threaten national power, interests and sovereignty. You have reviewed transnati

You are asked in this assignment to address whether cooperation on the transnational challenges we have covered thus far threaten national power, interests and sovereignty. You have reviewed transnational challenges from economic globalization, terrorism, renewed great power rivalry, and now, infectious diseases and climate change. In this essay you will address yourself to a central policy conundrum – can the leading states cooperate on matters vital to all of humanity at acceptable costs to themselves and everyone else? Your assignment is to evaluate the tension between the cooperation required to deal effectively with transnational challenges and the competition among the great powers that sometimes impedes such cooperation. Pay special attention to the extra set of questions and essay length required Students will write a 6 page essay. Required Essay Questions: I attached few of the reading material that can help better understand the topic and to answer question number 4.

.         Choose any two of the global policy challenges coming from terrorism, economic globalization, infectious diseases or climate change, and evaluate how national security and global security are interdependent.

·         Why are terrorism, globalization, diseases, or climate change multifaceted in terms of how they are defined as policy problems? Specifically, how are they viewed as economic, political, and/or environmental policy problems, and also security ones? Explain these dimensions for your set of two challenging policy problems.

·         Do you find a clash between the demands of sovereignty and the demands of fully addressing your two policy problems (i.e., terrorism, globalization, diseases, or climate change)? What tradeoffs, if any, to sovereign national interests can you identify for effective global solutions to your policy problems?

·         Jones, Pascual and Stedman (2009) argue that cooperation on transnational policy problems enhances sovereignty. What is their argument?

·         Which side of the debate about sovereignty and the likelihood of cooperation makes the most sense to you? What is the potential for future cooperation on your selected transnational policy problems?

Jones, B.D., Pascual, C., and Stedman, S.J. (2009). Power and Responsibility: Building International Order in an Era of Transnational Threats (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution. Chapter 1 (Sovereignty’s last best chance), pp. 3–20.

Jones, B.D., Pascual, C., and Stedman, S.J. (2009). Power and Responsibility: Building International Order in an Era of Transnational Threats. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution. Chapter 4 (Arresting climate change), pp. 75–106.

Patrick, S. (2011). Weak Links: Fragile States, Global Threats, and International Security (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapter 6 (Infectious disease), pp. 207–241.