What, do you think, is the future of the world? Are you optimistic or pessimistic about it? How will it differ regionally (in the Americas, Asia, Africa, Middle East, Europe)? What effect will the covid-19 crisis have on the world (please, see the two readings enclosed in the final reflection essay folio module and refer to them in your writing)?

In our class we took a whirlwind tour of the world in which we live, from an interdisciplinary perspective of International Studies. We talked about what the major global issues are, and what the basic building blocks of the global society are. In the second part of the class, we took a regional perspective on global realities, discussing Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, Asia and Africa. We also discussed (in the mid-term essays) your personal perspective on the world and its issues.

Given the above, please, answer the series of interconnected questions:

1) What, do you think, is the future of the world? Are you optimistic or pessimistic about it? How will it differ regionally (in the Americas, Asia, Africa, Middle East, Europe)? What effect will the covid-19 crisis have on the world (please, see the two readings enclosed in the final reflection essay folio module and refer to them in your writing)?

It is very important that in your essay you provide a regional overview of the world (that is, how will the future of the world DIFFER in Europe, the Americas, Asia, Middle East, Africa) and that you base your answer on our class readings and knowledge that you derived from the course. Essays that do not do it will be graded down.

2) How will this future affect you personally?

3) What piece of information that you learned in class (please, refer to the course material) was most relevant/striking to you and why?

4-5 pages (between 2000-2500 words), in a good, grammatical English. Please, include citations from our readings and a bibliography.

Please, use any consistent bibliographic style, but it must be a proper and established one. To learn about different styles of citing and listing bibliographic items check out here https://www.bibliography.com/how-to/types-of-bibliography-styles/#:~:text=The%20four%20most%20common%20citation,high%20school%20and%20college%20students.

Chapters from edited books (like our textbook) have to be cited by the actual author (not the editor) and listed chapter-by-chapter in the bibliography.

The grading will use the following rubric attached below with the sources

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