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Select one of these questions for your major essay and please read both the essay advice and the essay marking guidelines below.
Your essay should be uploaded via the link below. It should be no more than 2000 words in length, including references, but not your bibliography. You do not have to use any particular reference system, such as Harvard or APA, but you must choose one and apply it properly and consistently.
1. Which theory – realism, institutionalism, feminism, etc. – best explains the key global security challenges we face today and the best way to address them? Please identify the security challenges and the ways in which your preferred theory argues they should be addressed.
2. How successful was the postwar international order constructed in the 1940s in ensuring global security? Where did it succeed, and why? And where did it fail, and why?
3. How successful was the post-Cold War order in ensuring global security? Where did it succeed, and why? And where did it fail, and why?
4. Is there any point in having a “Responsibility to Protect” when the international community does not have the means to protect all threatened communities around the world?
5. Why do certain individuals and groups decide to adopt a strategy of terrorism? Illustrate your answer with detailed reference to one individual or group.
6. Was Kenneth N. Waltz right to argue that “more” nuclear weapons would be “better” for global security? If so, why? If not, why not?
7. Why do rising powers appear to cause major wars? Illustrate your answer with detailed reference to one example of a rising power.
8. What does China hope to achieve with the Belt and Road Initiative?
9. Will automating war make it more or less humane?
10. “Information warfare is the greatest threat to the survival of liberal democracy”. Is that right? If so, why? If not, why not?
