The Neighbouring States as Sanctuary for Rebel Groups - Assignment Example

1. What is the dependent variable?

• Repression

1. What is (are) the independent variable(s)? (List at least two.
2. International factors
3. Domestic conflict processes
4. How does this article claim to contribute to the academic literature? (Write maximum 100 words).

            The article argues that the international boundaries limit the strength of a state as the rebels often organize in a transnational manner to be able to evade repression. The article contributes to the academic literature by providing tested claims. All the claims in the article underwent a test through quantitative analysis for the 1951 to 1999 civil conflicts.

2. Related to your own research interests and potential topics for your MA thesis:
3. Write two different research questions that you may be interested in researching.
4. Would lifting the United States embargo against Cuba be in the best interest of both countries?
5. What are the underlying route issues that motivate Basque separatists in succeeding from Spain?
6. Identify the dependent and some possible independent variables for each question.
7. Dependent – Best interest

 Independent - Lifting the United States embargo against Cuba

2. Dependent – Basque separatists in succeeding from Spain

Independent- Underlying route issues

3. Choose ONE of the background concepts below and write a systematized concept and an indicator for that concept, following the approach in the Adcock and Collier article (see the figure on page 531 of that article). Based on your response, a reader should clearly be able to decide when an entity or event qualifies as an instance of this concept.