Week 5 Learning Team Policy Brief Paper and Presentation

Identify a nation and use a problem or issue selected from the Transnational Problems area of the nation’s fact pages from The World Fact Book located at: https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
(if the link won’t work – google CIA Factbook).

Choose a policy maker you want to advise. The policy makers in this scenario are to be briefed on an issue or problem associated with a specific nation that your team selects from The World Fact Book.  Remember that this is not a history assignment, focus should be on the current issue, and the current policy (proposed) solution.

Note. A policy brief is a report given to a policy maker, such as the U.S. State Department, an agency of the United Nations, the chief executive officer of a multinational corporation, the Director-General of the World Trade Organization, or the head of an NGO.

Prepare a 8- to 10-slide presentation and a 2000-word policy brief. Be sure to use a minimum of 10 peer-reviewed journal article references as research for your presentation and brief.

Include the following in the brief and presentation:

·         A description of the problem

·         Facts and assumptions about the problem

·         Discussion and several options for solving it

·         Which solution you think is best and why 

·         An explanation of how the advantages of the solution outweigh the potential liabilities

Be sure to address technology implications and/or considerations