Posted: April 18th, 2015

How Successful has the United Nations been in providing peace and security in the Middle East?

Instructions
1. The project must be written in a critical academic style,
2. No complicated or unclear sentences or paragraphs
3. This if first class assignment make sure about spelling and grammar mistakes and pay attention to punctuation throughout the project
4. Below instructions must be followed

Guidance
Avoid a simple narrative. A project should test or examine a thesis and / or try to address specific questions or problems. Analysis is one of the key elements to such piece of work

Assessment criteria.
1. Analysis: the ability for example, to critically comment on, and adjudicate between different theories or interpretations. A project will be much stronger if it does this simply list different authors approaches to a topic. Engage critically with the cases that authors put forward.
2. Structure: the ability to produce a coherent piece of work where it is clear what the aims are and how the separate chapters relate. Keep a clear focus on the relevant materials.
3. Integration and defence of material: integration refers to the relationship between models/ theories employed and the empirical work
4. Range of sources: this is not solely a quantitative exercise but, generally speaking, the more sources the better. A project which used only a few books or articles would be very thin.
5. Presentation: a project will lose marks for poor spelling, poor punctuation or poor grammar. Project must be typed or world-processed in double space, size 12 font must have page numbers and be spiral bound.

Grading:

A project of the first class quality (70%) would demonstrate a high level of critical engagement with theoretical and /or methodological issues and integrate seamlessly (where appropriate) theoretical and empirical material. It should be clear that all available sources have been critically evaluated and the methodological approach should be clearly set out and justified. Grammar, spelling and punctuation should be of the highest standard. Primary material l would not be essential; however,
Project Title
How Successful has the United Nations been in providing peace and security in the Middle East?

Structure
1. Summary (300 words)
What is the project about; it is an abstract and gives the overall arguments and conclusions of the project in a summary form.

2. Introduction
In the introduction Please say what is the purpose of this project and what are you going to analyse? Which Ares will be covered? Why have you chosen these case study areas below, which is Palestine- Israeli conflicts UN Security Council role in the first and second Gulf war and recent Syrian conflicts? And what is the objective of the study?

3. Project body (divide it into 3 to 4 chapters )
Each chapter divide into subtitles
Case studies areas will be the role of the UN and Security Council in
• Palestine-Israel conflicts
• UNSC’s intervention in the first and second Gulf war (Iraq)
• Security Council role in Syrian recent conflict
Please make sure to explore and analysis the role of the United Nations and Security Council’s role in keeping peace and security in the middle east mainly in the above areas , identify the positive and negative points and also identify the strengths and the weaknesses of the security councils in talking issues in the Middle East Crises and finally explores and analyse the weaknesses and inability of the SC in solving the Syrian recent conflicts.

4. Conclusion
Highlight the main points and project question must be answered, and what has been achieved.

Sources: can be
Books
Newspaper
E-Books and e-journals
Internet search engine google may be useful

5. References
You must reference as you go along and immediately after the relevant point or after direct quotation you must put the page number. Eg (Miller, 2009, p. 106).
6. Bibliography
The bibliography may be separated into primary and secondary sources if applicable. Do not subdivide articles and books. List works alphabetically by author.
The three most common forms of entries should be set out as follows:

Article: I. Bellamy ‘Insuring Security’ Political Studies 44 (5) 1996
Chapter in edited collections: J. Jennings ‘Anarchism’ in R. Eatwell and A. Wright (eds) Contemporary Political Ideologies (London, Pinter, 1993).
Book: J.Gary Liberalism (Milton Keynes, Open University Press, 1986).

7. Contents page List
• Chapter titles and page numbers.
• Subtitles and page numbers.

some useful sources might be helpful

References
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Arnör, A., (2012). Vetoing Syria: A problematization of the Syrian crisis through the right of veto. Lund: Lund University.
Bellamy, A. J., (2003). Feature — Legality of the use of Force against Iraq. Melbourne Journal of International Law. 4: 1 – 24.
Bosco, V., (2011). The UN response to the Arab Spring: challenges and opportunities, between 2011 and 2012. International Organizations. IX(III): 81 – 90.
Callanan, B., and Weiler, D., (2008). War Budgeting Strategies: Case Studies of the Gulf War and the Iraq War. Cambridge: Harvard Law School.
Carlo, G. S., (2011). Indeterminacy and Vagueness in UN Resolutions Relating to the Second Gulf War. International Journal of Humanities and Social Science. 1(21): 46 – 57.
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