Essay question.
-Do you agree that nuclear weapons have made the world a safer place?

Essay Structure

Introduction
– Simple orientation to topic
– Thesis
– Summary of key points

Argument
– Key points presented in order of summary
– Clear topic sentences with evidence and/or examples
– Constant orientation to thesis

Conclusion
– Summary of findings
– Thesis re-statement
– Final statement

Assessment Description

You must write an essay of 1500 words.

Assessment Requirements and Criteria
Referencing System: You must use either APA (in-text) or Chicago (footnotes) referencing system.
Please note that while APA does not require page numbers you must include page numbers in your essay.
Please also note that while Chicago does not require you to include newspaper articles in the bibliography
you must include newspaper articles in the bibliography for your essay.
For this assignment you are required to utilise at least four scholarly/academic sources in addition to those
we have provided.

Do not use Wikipedia. Popular magazine articles, newspaper articles, and many of the writings you find on
search engines like Google do not qualify as academic/scholarly sources. (Learn to discern!) This does not mean
that you cannot use them; often they are very welcome additions to your essay, particularly if you want to use very
new material. If you do use them you must cite them in exactly the same way as you would if they were academic/scholarly
sources.

List of the provided materials

Recommended Readings
Prescribed Textbook
– Introduction to International Relations: Enduring Questions and Contemporary Perspectives Joseph Greico,
G.John Ikenberry and Michael Mastanduno (eds), Palgrave, 2015.

Essential Reading
– Arrigo, Bruce A. and Heather Y. Bersot, (eds), 2014, The Routledge Handbook of International Crime and
Justice Studies, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
– Badescu, Cristina Gabriela, 2011, Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect: Security and
human rights, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
– Balaam, David N. 2014, Introduction to International Political Economy, 6th edition, Boston: Pearson.
– Burchill, Scott, Richard Devetak, Andrew Linklater, Jack Donnelly, Terry Nardin, Matthew Paterson, Christian
Reus-Smit and Jacqui True, 2013, Theories of International Relations, 5th edition, Hampshire: Palgrave
Macmillan.
– Carr, E.H., 2001, The Twenty Years’ Crisis, 1919-1939, London, Palgrave.
– Devetak, Richard, Anthony Burke and Jim George (eds), 2012, An Introduction to International Relations, 2nd
edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
– Falk, Richard, 2014, (Re)imagining humane global governance, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
– Gaddis, John Lewis, 2006, The Cold War, London: Allen Lane.
– Goodhart, Michael E., (ed.), 2009, Human Rights: Politics and practice, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
– Gorman, Robert F., 2010, The Cold War, Pasadena, California: Salem Press.
– Hans, Asha and Betty A. Reardon, (eds), 2010, The gender imperative: Human security vs state security, New
Delhi: Routledge.
– Hehir, Aidan, 2010, Humanitarian intervention: An Introduction, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
– Jackson, Robert L., 2013, Global politics in the 21st century, New York: Cambridge University Press.
– Jackson, Robert and Georg Sorensen, 2013, Introduction to International Relations: Theories and Approaches,
5th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
– Kavalski, Emilian, (ed.), 2015, Encounters with World Affairs: An Introduction to International Relations,
Surrey: Ashgate.
– Lawson, Stephanie, 2012, International Relations, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Polity Press.
– Ling, L.H.M., 2014, The Dao of world politics: Towards a post-Westphalian, worldist international relations,
Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
– Natarajan, Mangai, 2010, International Crime and Justice, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
– O’Brien, Karen, 2010, Climate Change, Ethics and Human Security, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University
Press.
– Reichel, Philip L. and Jay S. Albanese, 2014, Handbook of transnational crime and justice, 2nd edition, Los
Angeles: Sage.
– Sinclair, Timothy J., 2012, Global governance, Cambridge: Polity Press.
– Weiss, Thomas, 2012, Humanitarian intervention: Ideas in action, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Polity Press