Order Description
“How does a realist perspective explain the international community’s failure to intervene in response to the 1994 Rwandan genocide?”

a) discuss the merits and limitations of the theoretical perspective you have chosen; b) provide a brief background on your case study; and c) demonstrate why your theory is a useful ‘lens’ in explaining or understanding your case. The objective of this assignment is to engage with and correctly apply one of the IR theories we have covered. In other words, you should try to demonstrate how your theory helps to explain the outcomes of the selected case study. For this reason, do not simply summarize the history of your topic. The strongest papers will be those that objectively weigh the strengths and weaknesses of a particular theory, and argue why it provides the most compelling explanation of your case.