Structure
The final paper has to be structured as follows:
− Course reference, date / Title / Author / Abstract
− Introduction
− Literature review and research question
− Approach / Method
− Analytical part
− Conclusion
− Bibliography
Number of pages: 12
Font: Times New Roman 12
Space: 1.5 space
APA style
Topic: You will try to find out, whether there might be a correlation between a country’s position on liberal order and specific systemic feature like economic development. Country: China
You need to determine which position the government/ruling party etc. represents with respect to the concept of a (Western) liberal order. Find the corresponding data for this country on the feature mentioned above and analyze it. Research question: What is the correlation between China’s position on liberal order and economic development? The method of this paper is secondary research based on existing data on the topic of interest.
Guidelines Paper
– Introduction: Why does the topic matter, why is it relevant to be researched?
– Part 1: Choose an adequate heading
Discussing the liberal order, its challenges, different positions to be found in the debate/literature. Which questions do occur? …
– Part 2: Choose an adequate heading
Discussing approach and its limitations
Basically, you are writing here that its secondary research based on existing data on the topic of interest. You also write limitations of such research and how you goanna do the analysis.
– Part 2: Choose an adequate heading
Case study, the selected country. Analysis of data and other sources. Why has this country been chosen? What are characteristics of this country that can be used for the analysis? How can this country be characterized, e.g. supportive of liberal order, non-supportive of liberal order, challenger to liberal order, mixed? What could be reasons for the country to be like that? …
– Part 3: Conclusion (or adequate heading)
What does the analysis of the country offer for the debate of the liberal order? Which role might this country play in the future with respect to the liberal order? Answer(s) to question(s) that occured? Overall assessment. Suggestions for future research.
About sources
There is no specific requirement, but when you will search the information about China’s economic development databases like Asian Development Bank, Human Development Index, IMF, OECD, World Bank or WTO might be useful as there you can find the information about GDP, for example. All sources must be reliable like peer-reviewed journals and articles that can be found for example in google scholar. No unreliable sources like Wikipedia.
pay attention to what I wrote in the guidelines. Don’t forget to add the research question in the paper and abstract too. In case you need more time contact me. I can give you 2 more additional days because I need to submit the paper on May 9th. Also, if you are not sure about something please contact me too.
