As moderator, write a relevant panel discussion (1,000-1,250 words).

Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Herbert Spencer serve as panelists. The paper will be written in a question and answer (Q/A) format, in which you write the questions to be presented to the panel, and then provide the answers.

Include the mandatory questions listed below, in addition to additional questions of your choice:

1. What ultimately caused the demise and consequential breakup of the Soviet Union in about 1990? What research would you conduct to understand this issue?

2. Why has industrialism declined in Europe in the last 50 years? What research would you conduct to understand this issue?

3. Devise a question focusing on the theoretical paradigms of the panelists.

4. Devise a question focusing on the basic theories of the panelists.

5. Devise ancillary questions for panelists.