Problem
A. One of the impacts of the Berlin Conference, and its attendant Scramble for Africa, is the fact that it created many landlocked countries in Africa. Discuss the specific problems such countries might face by virtue of being landlocked.
B. Why do you think China is generally able to outbid the USA, in particular, or Western countries, in general, when it comes to investment in Africa?
C. In your view, which of the following (riparian) countries along the Tigris-Euphrates basin-Turkey, Iraq, and Syria-is worst located in terms of the water resources of this basin, and why?
D. Show the differences between the following three concepts: colonialism, decolonialism, and neocolonialism.
E. Discuss the factors that instigated the Transatlantic Slave Trade
F. Discuss how the national borders imposed on Africa by Europeans, following the Belin Conference, have affected Africa's development.
G. Discuss the causes of water shortages and related conflicts along one of the following three river basins-the Nile basin; the Jordon-Yarmouk basin; the Tigris-Euphrates basin.
H. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is often referred to as a "Region without Regionalism." Discuss your understanding of the statement and show your agreement or disagreement with it.