Economic Policy

With reference to two leaders from different regions, compare and contrast effectiveness of authoritarian economic policy in the Cold War era.

Introduction

Historical context (establish perspective)

The authoritarians rules their country on their will and designates many economy policies for their own country.

Thesis

The authoritarian's economic policy to redistribute land have lead to both positive and negative impact on their own country's economy.

Castro

Historical Evidence (change)

Redistribution of land by INRA

Who	Castro and INRA
What	All rich and american enterprise’s unused land was distributed to poor peasant and they are being compensated according to the tax revenue.
When	1959
Where	Cuba
Why (cause/effect)	To provide benefits to the poor cuban people, and to continue Cuba’s revolution
Analysis (significance to your argument)	It redistributed about 20% of wealth in the entire country, and it does bring more than 70 thousand of poor families a source of income. So it is very effective because authoritarian regimes have the enough control over policies to operate these kinds of redistribute. (Respond to the thesis to show the benefit, but should use the same leader to prove the connection of economic policy to both economic benefit and failure, not two separate leaders to show benefit for one and loses for one)

Nasser

Historical Evidence (change)

Nationalize the suez canal to build the aswham dam

Who	Nasser
What	He nationalized the suez canal
When	1956
Where	Egypt
Why (cause/effect)	To build the aswahm dam to provide water resource for more peasants to be able to cultivate land, which is similar to what castro tried to do. To benefit their poor people in the cost of others. In order to gain popularity among them.
Analysis (significance to your argument)	This was a huge failure for Nasser as egypt immediately face an invasion by France, Britain, and Israel. They would have been completely defeated by the invaders if USSR didn’t make the nuclear bluff. And, even they kept the Suez canal after it, all Western European contries were unwilling to trade with Egypt any more, which lead to decline of Egypt’s export revenues, hence Nasser’s policy of nationalize the Suez canal would have an adverse effect on its economy.

Conclusion

Continuity-nationalism

These two authoritarians all have a strong sense of nationalism. And they use it to promise benefits to the poor public which simply happens to be the majority in their country to gain support for their regimes. This way of prioritizing the benefit for their own people more than the foreigners often made foreign countries lost some of their business interest in this nation, which, in turn, causing these authoritarian regimes being isolated in the global society especially by the western nations who have some colonial heritage in their country.