Political science

Choose any ONE of the following topics for your research paper.  It is not necessary to email me which topic you chose, but you must write about one of these topics from the list below:1. What caused European colonialism, who were the major colonial empires, and what was the impact of colonization on India, South Africa, and Indonesia?2. What is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict about? What are the motivations and strategies of the actors involved, and how has that conflict affected (or might affect) international relations broadly?3. How and why did Russia annex Crimea from Ukraine? How has the conflict between Russia and Ukraine affected the region and international relations broadly? Be sure to include the effect it has had on U.S.-Russian relations.4. How have human rights affected international politics? What state and non-state actors have had the most direct impact on expanding international human rights? What role have human rights considerations played in the formulation of American foreign policy?5. Why has North Korea pursued nuclear weapons and how has that affected its relationship with South Korea, China, and the United States? Provide an overall analysis of U.S. foreign policy toward North Korea.6. Choose a country in South America and describe the relationship between that country and the United States. How has that relationship evolved and what is the current status of that relationship? What role does that South American country play in regional politics and more broadly in international politics?7. What role does the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the primary judicial branch of the United Nations, play in international politics? What supranational powers, if any, does the ICJ possess? How have recent political trends affected the ICJ and other international organizations8. Choose a country in Africa and describe the relationship between that country and the United States. How has that relationship evolved and what is the current status of that relationship? What role does that African country play in regional politics and more broadly in international politics?9. Describe the historical relationship between the United States and France. How has that relationship evolved over the years? What is the current status of the relationship between the U.S. and France? What role does France play in regional politics and more broadly in international politics?10. Describe the historical relationship between the United States and China. How has that relationship evolved over the years? What is the current status of the relationship between the U.S. and China? What role does China play in regional politics and more broadly in international politics?Students will write one research paper. The paper must be typed and double-spaced, with Times New Roman 12 font (four to six pages/1,000 to 1,500 words) in MS Word and/or PDF. Papers must be in Chicago style format (author-date) and contain at least five peer-reviewed academic sources.

In 4-6 pages, Assume the role of Bernard Baruch on the eve of briefing President Truman about your plan and do the following:  Outline the essential elements of your plan Describe the key points of disagreement with the Soviets Explain why the Plan should not be compromised to reach an agreement Describe what you think will happen if we fail to reach an agreement

Make an essay about this topicÑ Why was Cuba such an area of concern for President Kennedy? What were his policies toward Cuba, and what were the results? Your essay HAS TO BE 5 paragraphs in length. You MUST include an introduction AND a conclusion. The textbook provided is the ONLY source required for this essay.

create a question have the literature review be based off the question How to treat your sources in order to squeeze the relevant info and write your LR? (Adapted from your Workbook, Mycoff, Jason D. 2019. Working with Political Science Research Methods – Problems and Exercises, 5th ed. Washington, D.C.: Sage/CQ Press Collect scholarly articles that address the research question’s content Start organizing your articles for your literature review by taking notes on each resource, for instance, in a table. Your table will include notes on each of your sources. Notice that each cell includes important information about one article. Each cell will include (among others): the parenthetical citation in bold to identify the article, notes about the article’s title the research question the time period studied the unit of analysis and sample size of the study, the jurisdiction (state, county, state, country, world region, world. other?) of interest whether the study took a quantitative or qualitative approach (how scholars have made empirical observations) the research design the article’s conclusion. 4. Answer the questions by comparing and contrasting the notes on the sources against each other: Based on your notes above, what are the questions that are asked and answered in the literature, and what questions seem to have been ignored so far? Which periods have scholars studied? Why? How relevant is it? What’s missing? Which jurisdictions have been on the radar of scholars? Why? How relevant is it? What’s missing? Which research designs were used by the research teams to study the topic at hand? Here an example from the Workbook as we will discuss the methodology in class next week: “Scholars have used different research designs to observe and analyze national and subnational variation in the causes of political violence. While many have used cross-sectional analyses (Eck 2014; Fox 2004; Muller 1985; Fearon and Laitin 2003), cross-sectional time series analyses (Pearce 2005), or fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (Ida 2015) to understand national variation in the causes of political violence, other scholars have used case studies (Homer-Dixon 1994; Welsh 2016) to analyze subnational variation.” Points of agreement: What are the conclusions shared by more than one scholar? Points of disagreement: What are the conclusions that run counter to another conclusion? 5. After you have answered the questions , consider how you could combine the sentences you wrote into a literature review. Finally, you’ll add (see the doc A Guide to Writing Literature Reviews in Political Science and Public Administration Department of Political Science UNC Charlotte, 2006): what parts of all the info found are most valuable and important how future research could be conducted to have the most substantial influence on the field.

Essay prompt: For this reflection essay, discuss this quote from A.C. McKeil’s 2017 e-ir essay, “A Brief Introduction to the Study of International Relations” : What Ken Booth (2014) calls ‘big and important problems’ are first and foremost what brings most students to IR. Every student will have a real-world issue or concern that s/he brings to the study, and which she can make her/his specialty. It is these personally recognized public problems that make the intellectual world of IR visible to the student. It is from these problems that the questions spring. Why are these problems going on? Must they? Or, can they be otherwise? Something I have always felt is close to the spirit of studying IR, is the drive to “make the world a better place”, to address the big and important problems of the world, to throw ourselves at their betterment. The study of IR is first and foremost a study, an intellectual activity, with an intellectual world, but awareness of it and interest in it comes from real-world problems… International problems are the reason why we get to the international questions.  All other  requirments are in attached files, please notice that the sources cited/referenced are to be strictly limited to: (A) required: Ch. 1 of Jackson, Sorensen and Moller (2019); and A.C. McKeil (2017); and (B) optional: any other additional readings listed on the course syllabus;, i provided all those PDFs.  i uploaded optional refrences which are in PDF formats, and other optional refrence are links to websites, so i took screenshot of it’s link name and uploaded as jpg files, if you need them you can search in google. it’s only 4 pages but has to be a very decent paper. thank you

1) Did the state response to the COVID 19 pandemic follow this process? 2) Which of the actors/factors noted above were most influential in shaping the state’s policy response to COVID 19. 3) Was the state’s response driven more by rational calculation or symbolic politics? Please be sure to explain why you take the positions you do.

Judicial Branch Assignment Federalist 78 is part of the Federalist Paper series written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison in defense of the US Constitution as written by the Constitutional Convention held in 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In essence, it is a persuasive essay used to convince states to ratify the Constitution. Federalist 78 specifically addresses the creation of the federal judicial branch. In particular, it describes the means of selecting judges and how long judges should remain in office.  Formatting: Double spaced, 12 Point Times New Roman Font, 1 inch margins,  2 full pages (¾ will not count), no title, name in header (no other information should be included at top of page). You may write up to 2 pages for this assignment but no more than 2 pages.  You must read Chapter 15 in your textbook and Federalist 78 to complete this assignment. Your task is to use the concepts in your book to complete this assignment. Do not use any outside sources. Only use your textbook and Federalist #78.  No direct quotes from Federalist 78 or other sources are permitted.  Fully answer all questions in essay form, using complete sentences, no numbering/bullet points. Do not repeat the questions. Use correct grammar and spelling at all times.  Questions: For what reasons does Hamilton state that the judicial branch is the “least dangerous” branch of government? What are the possible effects on the judicial branch of being the “least dangerous” branch? Hamilton states that the judicial branch must be independent. From what, or whom, does the branch need to be independent? What is the main purpose of a judicial branch according to Hamilton? What type of judicial selection and term of office does Hamilton support? What types of judicial selection does he not support? Why? According to Hamilton, what are the qualifications and characteristics that judges must possess in order to do their job? Further, what type of judicial selection method does Hamilton think will produce these characteristics?

A little understood, but nonetheless important, legislative/procedural maneuver in the U.S. Senate is the filibuster. For this topic, I want you to do some research on recent uses of the filibuster and discuss precisely how the filibuster works.  How is the filibuster used as a procedural tool in the legislative process?  How is a filibuster defeated?  Why doesn’t the filibuster exist in the U.S. House of Representatives?  Give an example of a recent legislative issue/topic in the U.S. Senate in which the filibuster was used.  What was the outcome?

Cover Sheet: please use the cover sheet to help you verify that you have all of the required information. Refer to the assignment for specifics about each component Introductory paragraph: introduces the purpose of the paper, to compare two countries to better understand… Conclusion: please summarize the paper and then give some big picture analysis about your comparisons Citations: make sure you are using Chicago Author-Date, there is style information in Module 13 TEXTBOOK!!!: The textbook should be one of your sources both for information about the countries and for basic concept definitions and relevance. Prove you understand course content! (Orvis Drogus Introducing Comparative Politics Fourth Edition) First Person? Please try to write without first person pronouns. Instead of “I will compare…” you can try “This brief compares…”   Students will write a final brief that describes each of their cases, and compares and analyzes differences between them of approximately 10-12 pages. (30%) Briefs must address the following (Please use the CP Brief Cover Sheet.docx  to help identify where the required components are located in your paper):: Ch 2: How did each of your countries become modern states? (brief history that explains how X arrived at this modern moment) Describe (these elements of your case will likely be expanded on the more you learn): Territory Sovereignty Legitimacy Bureaucracy Is your state: Strong, Weak, Quasi-, or Failed? Explain Ch 3: Describe the Regime of your country, including claim to legitimacy and key institutions.  What is the relationship of the people to the regime? Ch 4: Using the categories of Identity discussed in the book (and of course there are others…) describe the politics of identity issues in your state. Please select one issue or particular claim. You do not need to cover all of these issues or categories of identity. Please consider prioritizing claims/issues that contribute effectively toward your comparison between states. Nation, Ethnicity, Religion, Race, Gender/Sex/Sexuality Vocabulary (Identity Group Demands): Recognition (Rights), Autonomy, Representation/Participation, Improved Social Status Ch 5: Describe the governing institutions for your country: Executive Legislature Judiciary Bureaucracy (IF your country is not a democracy, you will still need to account for governing institutions which likely look similar to these categories.) Ch 6: Describe the mechanisms of Participation and Representation in your state. Specifically: Electoral system Discuss the Party System and Political Parties In a 2-party system, what are the parties and what are the key differences, in a multi-party system, describe some of the issues or major cleavages between parties What is the role of civil society and interest groups? Ch 7: Please identify any current/recent examples of social movements, terrorism, civil war, revolution, etc. You need only address instance. Please consider prioritizing an instance that contributes effectively toward your comparison between states. How are people mobilized to participate in contentious politics? How do social movements and other forms of contentious politics function? (What are the actual behaviors/what are people doing? Who supports them? etc) What effects do contentious politics have on governments and policies? What effects have globalization and the advent of internet-based communications and social media had on contentious politics? Why does contentious politics sometimes turn violent and take the forms of terrorism, civil war, or revolution? Ch 8: If your country is authoritarian, Describe the regime Answer should include the institutions of governance and political actors we’ve already discussed (legislatures, parties, judiciary, bureaucracy, elections, and civil society) How does this regime maintain power? Answer should include measures of repression and adaptation Address the problem of succession? If your country is NOT authoritarian: Are there or behaviors that current leadership employs that are characteristic of authoritarianism? Ch 9: Please identify an important regime change in your country. Who was involved? What happened and how? Why? What was the outcome? (P. 471 in the book lists some important events/dates of the 20th century for each country except the UK, y’all will have to look further back. You do not need to use an event from this list however.) Ch 10: Discuss the political economy of your country. This means some basic economic information including resources/trade/etc. and the measures below, but should also include a discussion about the political involvement/interventions of the state in the economy. GDP, Unemployment, Inflation, Absolute Poverty, Inequality (Gini) Ch 11: Discuss the political economy of your country. If your country has a weak economy this may mean discussing the mechanisms targeting development in may forms. What does development look like in your country?  Ch 12: NONE   Rubric

1. Go to the web site of the American Civil Liberties Union (click here  (Links to an external site.) ). Click “Issues” from the banner. 2. Under your issue, select one and only one of the “current issues” and expand it using the “More +” button. For example, under the first issue, Capital Punishment, the “current issues” are: Execution Methods Innocence and the Death Penalty Mental Illness and the Death Penalty Prosecutorial Misconduct and Capital Punishment Racial Disparities and the Death Penalty Select one and only of the “current issues” categorized under any one of the main “issues” headings. Do not choose Reforming Police. We are writing on that  topic on one of the discussion boards. Also, please do not choose abortion policy. It’s an important topic, but off limits for this assignment.  3. Read several articles (at least 4) from your chosen area of the web site.  4. Based on these several articles, write a 600-word paper in essay form which:  a) summarizes the issue  b) explains the position the ACLU takes on this issue and the work the organization has undertaken c) argues whether or not you believe the ACLU is on the right side of the issue.