Submit a 1,000-word essay outlining your plan and initial thoughts on your final research paper and video presentation. This outline will detail which national or international security issue was chosen from the list provided below. The proposal will outline your planned analysis of the issue, your preliminary ideas on the strategy you recommend, and commentary on the likely effectiveness of your strategy to bring the issue to a positive resolution. The choices of other students do not impact your choice. Discuss possible exceptions to this policy with the instructor. The essay must include a cover page and bibliography (not counted in the word total). The essay is to be typed, 12 font, double spaced and must meet the following criteria: (1) identifies the issue in need of resolution, outlining a brief history of the issue (10% of the grade); (2) explains the preliminary thesis statement you will make in the final research paper with an explanation of why you have chosen this thesis statement (20% of the grade); (3) estimate the major sections of your paper, i.e., sample section titles and a brief explanation of the purpose of each section, including footnotes/endnotes (30% of the grade); (4) provides an initial working bibliography with all sources collected so far using Chicago (preferred), APA or MLA style (20% of the grade and is required). Submitting the proposal grammatically correct and error-free is worth 10% of the grade. The paper proposal will be submitted in this assignment. The submission is to be in PDF format. Only PDF-formatted files will be accepted. The naming convention of the PDF file is lastnamePSCI6630Proposal.pdf (last name being the student’s last name). All submissions must have a cover page with the student’s name, course number, and title. (Following these submission directions precisely is worth 10% of the grade.)
Issue selection comprises 1) issue topic and 2) primary perspective. For example, 1) the issue topic is the war between Ukraine and the Russian Federation, and 2) you would then choose the primary perspective of the USA, the Russian Federation, the Ukrainian government, or another nation-state government. While your final paper will need to consider the perspectives of all significant players reacting to your proposed strategy, in this example, you would need to write the strategy for either Trump, Putin, Zelenskyy, or another nation-state leader as your primary focus.
1. TOPIC US relations with the Russian Federation
