Do not go past 1500 words please
You should state the issues you are concerned with in the introduction, develop your hypothesis and arguments in the main part and the concluding parts should provide answers to the questions raised in the introduction.

Topic: Explain the role of sovereignty in the international system.
Apply different theoretical views to this issue and offer your own opinion. Could sovereignty be restricted? If so, explain how and when? Did sovereignty change over the time?

Explain different theories and their approaches with empirical examples to strengthen your own argument.

Key criteria:
Quality of Answer and Argument;
Quality and appropriateness of evidence
Fulfilment of key tasks
Research and referencing (use of relevant sources; engagement with literature from the reading list; integration and application of research in the argument)
Structure and Presentation
RECOMMENDED SOURCES
-Schuett, Robert, and Peter M. R. Stirk (eds.). The Concept of the State in International Relations: Philosophy, Sovereignty, and Cosmopolitanism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press .
– Strange, Susan (1996) The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) ‘Theoretical Foundation’,
Chapters 3 and 4 in M. F. Imber, & T. Salmon (Eds.) (2008) Issues in International Relations, 2nd Edition, Routledge.
Chapter 5 in Heywood (2011) Global Politics, Palgrave.
Krasner, Stephen D. (1999) Sovereignty: organized hypocrisy. Princeton University Press.
Krasner, Stephen D. “Sharing sovereignty: New institutions for collapsed and failing states.” International security 29.2 (2004): 85-120.
Jens Bartelson (2006) ‘The Concept of Sovereignty Revisited’, European journal of lnternational Law, vol. 17, no.2.