Policemen of the World Thesis and Outline
Assignment 2.1: Policemen of the World Thesis and Outline
Name
Strayer University
Instructions: Delete my headings and all the instructions I
have typed. Make sure to remove the
highlights.
Introduction Paragraph (Delete all of
my specific instructions)
Place your
introduction paragraph here. Provide a
general overview of your topic. End
with your thesis statement as your last sentence. Please underline your thesis statement. This intro should give an overview of your
main assertion for the paper. For
example (and you can choose to follow my suggested thesis here if you want): During
the twentieth century the United States have become the “policemen”
of the world through international incidents such as (then list your two chosen
incidents here) and through changes in foreign policy after World War II.
Outline (delete my explanations and placeholder instructions and replace with
the content)
I. Three International Events from the past five years
that can be traced back to a foreign policy created after the Civil War -Note – This means international events the U.S. has been involved in
during the last few years: Think about
Iraq, Egypt, Israel=Palestine, Russia etc.
Don’t just list countries. Put
the actual issue/event specifically.
A. First one you will discuss goes
here and list the foreign policy it can be traced back to
B. Second one you will discuss goes
here and list the foreign policy it can be traced back to
C. Third one you will discuss goes
here and list the foreign policy it can be traced back to
II. Three Aspects of U.S. history since 1865 that has
led to the U.S.’s rise as a world super power police(Be specific – not just economic, political, and geographic – but
specific economic aspects or geographic aspects etc. This means – what are some major reasons WHY
the U.S. became a super power..major factors that led to the rise of power)
A. First aspect goes here
B. Second aspect goes here
C. Third aspect goes here
III. Five ways international incidents since World War
II where American has taken on a policing role.
(Here you should be thinking of incidents,
wars, peace talks etc. where the U.S. has helped police another country or
helped guide them to peace etc. Do not
just put the country name here. For
example, don’t put Vietnam..say Vietnam War.
Don’t just put Iraq or Afghanistan – the U.S. has done several policing
actions in those countries so be specific on the action. In addition, please list these in
chronological order.
A. First event goes here
B. Second event goes here
C. Third event goes here
D. Fourth event goes here
E. Fifth event goes here
IV. Five driving forces that fueled international
policy decisions involving the international incidents you outlined previously
(consider treaties, exit strategies, elections, wars, etc.) Here you are
going to look up at Part III. For
whatever you had listed for A, B, etc. you are going to put the driving force
of that action/intervention in the correlating spot. So for example – if you have the Korean War
listed in A in Part III – then in A on this part you would put the driving
force – or main reason the U.S. got involved in the Korean War. These should be in the exact same order as
above and should go with each specific one you mentioned in III.
A. First force goes here – and
should explain WHY the U.S. become involved with event A above
B. Second force goes here- and
should explain WHY the U.S. become involved with event B above
C. Third force goes here- and should
explain WHY the U.S. become involved with event C above
D. Fourth force goes here – and
should explain WHY the U.S. become involved with event D above
E. Fifth force goes here- and should
explain WHY the U.S. become involved with event E above
References
(make sure to keep the references section on
its own page and delete the Instructions)
**you must include at least three academic references other than the textbook. For exemplary credit – use more than 3
NOTE: Wikipedia
and other generic-type websites (like ask.com, about.com, infoplease, yahoo
etc.) are not acceptable. You must use
scholarly sources only. Academic
journals from the library search engines are best (like Jstor etc.).
You can also use http://scholar.google.com/
– which will bring up scholarly references.
If it asks you to pay – do not do that.
You can write down the author and name of article and probably find it
in the Strayer library resources.
