Analyze and compare each state Human Development Index

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Analytical Essay Assignment - Please use Italy as case study.

Learning outcomes -

1. Analyze how the domestic context influences a state's foreign policy.

2. Assess some of the key factors (groups, individuals, regions, etc.) in the state that impact foreign policy.

3. Analyze the role that institutions play in your state in both the domestic and international contexts.

Task - Write an analytical essay of 1,500 to 2,500 words (not including the bibliography) linking the domestic to the international context. The paper should address the following:

Participants will be expected to choose a state and show how its domestic context influences its international relations. This will demonstrate participant's ability to assess how various internal situations can influence a state's foreign policy.

The assessment will test participant's ability to apply lessons learned over the entire course to the real world. For example participants can show how issues such as civil society, elections, and economic development can have powerful links between the domestic and international contexts.

In addition to the criteria related to organization and readability specified rubric, papers will be evaluated based on the use of evidence, the logic of the structure, the quality and originality of the argument, and the written expression.

1. Analyze and compare each state's Human Development Index. (You can use this in multiple ways, but you must reference it in your presentation).

2. Explain the challenges of comparing these states. In other words, how fair is it to compare these two states? To what degree are you comparing apples and oranges?

These websites may also be helpful for state comparisons:

1. The World Bank. Ease of Doing Business Index

2. World Economic Forum. The Global Competiveness Report 2018

3. Transparency International. Corruption Perceptions Index

4. Measures of comparative political systems - Polity Project IV web site

5. Our World in Data

These websites may be of secondary help:

1. The World Bank's Worldwide Governance Indicators

2. CIA World Fact Book

3. The World Bank country GDP data

4. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Military budgets)

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