PLSC 357
Paper 3: due 10/11
Follow the instructions in the syllabus and in the handout “How to Write a Good Paper in
Political Science.” Write a three-page (double-spaced, typewritten) short coherent and engaging
essay on the following question. Include all references and the Honor Pledge.
Discuss how material factors (e.g., military power, economic resources) and ideational
variables (e.g., a nation’s identity, self-image, and elites’ values) help inform East Asian
international relations. Use the relationship between China and Japan as a case study.
What would be the probable prospect of this important yet complex relationship, viewed
from a realist lens, a constructivist lens, and a combined realist-constructivist lens,
respectively? Write your essay as an integrated, cogent dialogue between theories and
cases.
