New Series: IR Debates
Hello readers! It's been awhile, since I've been busy with school. Yesterday, when I was deep in the writing process of an essay on international relations between China and the U.S., I realized there was no good reason for school to keep me from running the blog because I could work some of my assignments into it! I'm taking an Intro International Relations (IR) online college course this semester that requires two papers every week. They are bound to be occasionally controversial, inflammatory, and strange. I'll simply publish those. In order to look at these essays the right way, I need to give you some context. All of the papers come from an online discussion board that students are required to participate in twice weekly. The subject matter stems from our textbook, which contains debate sections at the end of each chapter. We are told to pick one of two sides, write at least three paragraphs in support of it, and submit it to the discussion board for the whole c...