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IntroductionThe IPPA is designed as an online resource for use with the content, concepts and themes, and connections in the state curriculum. Specifically, the IPPA will help you to gain a fuller understanding and appreciation of the current major public policy issues nations confront and attempt to resolve through the appropriate council of the United Nations (UN). You are not simply studying the facts that are contained in your global history textbook. As a public policy analyst, you are looking beyond the isolated facts to identify and investigate current social problems in our global world. Why do these social problems exist? What policies should the members of the UN enact to deal with them? Will these policies be successful? Have similar social problems existed at other times in global history? Can you develop public policies to address such problems today?The public policy issues that you will be analyzing are each related to one or more concepts and themes. Most historical issues can usually be connected to similar public policy issues related to that theme in another time period. For example, you could study current public policy issues that relate to imperialism or economic systems in the 19th or 20th centuries. Just as the curriculum guide encourages connections within themes across time periods, the IPPA will also give you that opportunity. In other words, when you complete the analysis of a current public policy issue, you will have the option to examine a similar historical problem related to that theme. The similar problem may have taken place in another country in another period or may exist today. In this way, you will be making connections and learning from past efforts to deal with similar social conditions.
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