SEC331 Group-based Assignment

This assignment is worth 20% of the final mark for SEC331, Theory and Practice in Security Studies.

Question 1

‘”ASEAN has failed to recognize the Myanmar peoples’ desire by siding with the illegitimate and murderous military junta,” said Khin Ohmar, the founder and chair of advocacy group Progressive Voice.

“The decision of the ASEAN delegation to solely meet with the illegal junta provides legitimacy to the military junta and contributes to further perpetration of grave human rights violations in the country.”’

NikkeiAsia, 8 Jun 2021 Examine and elaborate the “Five-Point Consensus” reached by ASEAN to end the crisis in Myanmar.

Question 2

‘It was late February this year. At an Internet auction in America, a graphic artist who called himself Beeple had reportedly sold an NFT of a naked Donald Trump, covered in graffiti, for $6.6 million (£4.7 million). Slumped by a sidewalk, looking dead, the naked Donald had the word LOSER scrawled on his back.’

The Times, 6 Jun 2021 What are NFTs? Assess how a company can evade corporate tax using NFTs.

Question 3

‘Wednesday’s summit in Geneva, Switzerland, between U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin was seen as an important effort to place some guardrails on the relationship to prevent the world from seeing what rock bottom would look like.

But beyond a joint statement agreeing to nuclear Armageddon is in neither country’s interest, little substance emerged from the summit.’ – Foreign Policy, 18 Jun 2021 Appraise if US-Russian relations are set to worsen.