Socio-Economics
Write a paper 5-7 pages in length with 12 point font and one inch margins. In addition to drawing on readings assigned or recommended in this course, you should cite an additional 3-5 academic sources. For this project you will need to identify a nation (China, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, etc..) or other political economy (European Union, etc ) of interest.
For the country of your choice, make a thesis assertion which you will defend with critical analysis applying a socio-economic theory, law, model or policy, backed by research. The following paragraph is taken from page 5-23 of the Political Military Analysis Handbook dated April 20, 2006. While economics or any other single political military analytical system cannot tell the whole story, its pervasive impact on domestic politics, foreign policy, defense policy, and diplomacy dictates its prominent place in the analysts repertoire of tools.
Decisions always incur costs, and in todays intricate international system, they often have both an economic impetus and an economic impact. As such, foreign policy can neither be understood nor predicted without consideration of the economic dimension (p. 5-23, Political Military Analysis Handbook). Consider writing your paper as a stand-alone socio-economic study, which you could later update and repackage as an appendix for your capstone SSDA Area Studies Project.
