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Section I: Introduction

In your introduction, you will give the background of your research topic. What is the broader intelligence issue? Why should you reader care about this topic? What are the implications for US national security?Your specific research question will be an element of this larger problem.

Note: An intelligence issue is NOT the evaluation of US policy or process. An intelligence issue is something that the IC researches to understand an adversary. For example, will North Korea invade South Korea or will Iran develop a nuclear weapons capability.

Section II: The Research Question : In this section, you should address your specific research question. This section should include:

Questions :

a) Your research question

b) What type of study is this (explanatory or predictive)?

c) What is the dependent variable

d) What are the independent variables

e) Are there obvious answers to your specific research question? What are they?

f) Short discussion of how you developed this question and why it should be of interest to the Intelligence Community.

Section III: Related Literature

Question : Provide current state of our accumulated knowledge as it relates to your specific research question.This section should answer whether or not there is an accumulated body of scholarship on this issue. Is this a new issue or have scholars and analysts been studying it for years? What kind of literature is out there? Are there leading researchers/analysts on this topic? Who are they? If this is a new issue, what challenges will that present to your research?

Section IV:Annotated Bibliography.

Question : While conducting your literature review, you will also build an annotated bibliography. Do this by providing an annotated bibliography of at least five sources you would use to answer your research question.These sources should include books, journals and other scholarly articles. In the annotation include what information the source provides to your research question.Use the Chicago style of annotation for this and all assignments in this course. Formatting counts.