APA Citation Assignment
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This assignment is due by Friday 9/5 at 5:00 PM. Please submit Part I and Part II through Brightspace.
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You should not work in groups to complete this assignment.
Part I: For each of the following documents, how would you list them on a reference page in APA style?
Write up a reference page that includes each source in APA style. Be precise with punctuation,
capitalization, spacing, indention, etc.
1. Book: Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics by Margaret Keck and
Kathryn Sikkink.
2. Journal Article: State Repression and the Tyrannical Peace by Christian Davenport.
3. Journal Article: The Clash of Civilizations? By Samuel P. Huntington in Foreign Affairs
4. Website Post: How Police Compare in Different Democracies by Amelia Cheatham and Lindsay
Maizland. Council on Foreign Relations.
5. Dataset: v-Dem Varieties of Democracy Data. Data Version 13. (Go to the V-dem website. They tell
you how to cite them. Make sure it’s in APA style!)
6. Blog Post: The Global Impacts of Covid-19 by Rafael Piñeiro Rodríguez and Fernando Rosenblatt.
Political Violence at a Glance.
Part II: Throughout the following paragraph, you need to place in-text citations in APA style. Then,
how would you list the two sources on the reference page in APA style? Make a reference page for the
two sources, and be precise.
During the 1970’s, Waltz established the core arguments of defensive realism when he argued
that the structure of the international system and the nature of anarchy made great powers cautious and
made them seek a balance of power. His arguments were supported by some tenets of classical realism,
but they more readily explained great power positioning during the Cold War era by focusing on the
defensive nature of great power politics. John Mearsheimer also used classical realism as a foundation
for state behavior, but he did not argued that great powers would behave offensively to maintain their role
in the international system. In his classic work on offensive realism, he notes, “Great powers behave
aggressively not because they want to or because they possess some inner drive to dominate, but because
they have to seek more power if they want to maximize their odds of survival.” Despite a common
foundation and agreement on certain assumptions, neorealism/structural realism has branched into these
rival arguments, explaining state behavior differently and based on distinct assumptions.
Sources:
Book: Theory of International Politics by Kenneth Waltz
Book: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John Mearsheimer. (Quote from p. 35–36)
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