Description
The research paper will be written on a specific foreign policy issue. We put together a list of articles from Foreign Affairs, the leading journal on global issues that are pertinent to the United States. You are expected to find out:
Which specific policy/policies the US adopted in response
Which executive branch division, foreign policy actor, lawmaker or Congressional committee advocated this response
Which area of research your article belongs to (Security Studies or International Political Economy)
Perhaps most important, which topic of the class you found most relevant to the article and why.
The evidence can only be gathered from reputable newspapers, magazines, government websites, congressmen’s websites and twitter accounts. Other internet sources will not be allowed. Papers should be approximately 1,000 words (excluding bibliography page) and the text must be double-spaced, written in Times New Roman font and 12-font size, leaving one inch space on each side of the page.
Please see the following attachments for more information:2. This paper is intended to be a short policy paper in the form of an op-ed that you would write to a newspaper.
Your review of the article of your choice is expected to be approximately 1,000 words. Your essay needs to be written in Word, in “Times New Roman”, with a font-size of 12, and should be double-spaced. In terms of your page margins, you should have 1 inch from the top, bottom, right, and left side of the page.
3. Organization is key to writing a good paper. A good organization makes a paper easy to read. It helps both you to organize your thoughts and the reader to understand your thoughts. Here are a few issues to take into account:
a. Introduction (app. 300 words, two paragraphs): Summarize the argument in the article. Which specific issue is the article talking about? What is the policy/policies that the US adopted in response? (10% of paper grade). Tell the reader why you think this issue demands our attention (10% of paper grade).
b. Analysis (app. 350 words, two to three paragraphs): Bring the debate about the issue in the article into your essay; what is the current administration’s standpoint on this issue? (10% of paper grade)? What are the opposition’s arguments (10% of paper grade)? Which area of research your article belongs to (Security Studies or International Political Economy) and why (please provide a discussion)? (20% of paper grade)
c. Opinion (app. 350 words, two to three paragraphs): State your own opinion and argument. Which perspective in International relations theory (realism or liberalism) best explains the US’s approach and why (30% of paper grade)?
d. Bibliography (10% of paper grade): See #6 below.5. Avoid any value judgments or any normative arguments that might reveal your political preferences. If the topic that you are exploring also involved the US, do not refer to the US as “we”. It is better to use the country names rather than “we” or “they” jargon.
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7. You will need both academic and policy sources to complete the paper (at least six sources are required to complete the paper including newspapers, magazines, government websites, NGO reports, etc.) Please follow this reference format when citing your sources in your bibliography.
Newspaper articles:
The New York Times, July 7, 1963, “Concerns Watch Caribbean Strife.”
Books:
Jeremy Weinstein. 2007. Inside Rebellion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Articles:
Elisabeth Jean Wood. 2008. “The Social Processes of Civil War: The Wartime Transformation of Social Networks”, Annual Review of Political Science 11:539-561.
If you are quoting from a source that you have read, please put the direct quote in quotation marks as below. Then put the author’s name and date in parentheses immediately after the quotation (if quoting from a newspaper article, include the title of the newspaper and full date);
“Third-party countries shipments were held up by the disagreements between their neighbors”
If you are quoting from a book or an article then you must put it in quotation marks and then enter the author’s name and the date of publication, such as (Blainey, 1988) or (Doran and Parsons, 1980).
Putting the arguments of others into your own words is preferred over direct quotes, and should still include in-text citations in the same format as above.
