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Assignment 1 – Research Proposal and Literature Review

To complete this assignment you are asked to:

(1) Identify a research topic that analyzes the interactions of state, non-state, and supra-national actors to examine for your final research paper that is due at the end of Week 6

(2) Identify a specific research question that your paper will address. The question should be analytical, and not descriptive, in nature (The question should examine why something happened, not describe how it happened).

(3) Offer a brief explanation of the topic and your planned research

(4) Write a preliminary literature review of at least 6 peer reviewed sources.

You must watch this video before doing the literature review. It explains how to do a literature review as opposed to an annotated bibliography. Do NOT provide an annotated bibliography. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2d7y_r65HU

Detailed instructions for each of these components are outlined below:

Research Topic and Question:

Your proposed research question should be approximately one paragraph in length and concisely state the issue you are proposing for the Research Paper, and the specific question that you are interested in answering.

You will have considerable leeway in choosing your topic, although it should center on patterns of conflict and cooperation in the international system. Examples of appropriate topics are, for instance, the relative success and failure of regional integration efforts, but you could also look at one particular instance of regional integration. You may want to explore the causes and nature of war, or peace. Make sure to identify your general topic, but also a concise research question that can be answered in the space and time that you have available.

Purpose Statement:

The purpose statement should be approximately 1 page in length.

Outline (1) why you chose this particular topic and (2) what your preliminary findings or hypotheses are. It is, of course, quite likely that your hypotheses and conclusions may change over the course of the four weeks of doing research. The purpose statement should be considered a rough map towards the eventual paper.

Submission details:

The research question/topic, purpose statement, and Literature Review should be assembled in a single Word Document.

All papers are submitted to TURNITIN before they are graded. Please can I have an original paper with proper intext citation since the same question has been previously answered several times on Study Pool and it means the papers have already been submitted into the TURNITIN.

3 pages single spaced