US FOREIGN POLICY HABITS IN ETHNIC CONFLICT assignment help

Here is my professor’s comments from the paper you wrote last time, can you please revise it now so I can revise up to full credit.

You need to spend more time on the data and method summary. Here are my recommendations. Succinctly summarize the research question: Why have US foreign policy makers arrived at ethnocractic solutions for post conflict reconstruction in direct contradiction to normative and strategic foreign policy interests? Then move on to the theory & hypotheses. E.g. Habit overrides strategic and idealistic interests in the context of domestic and international constraints – time binds and competing interests.

Furthermore, there is good reason to look to a theory of habit because of work by Hopf and others (this is their literature review). Then you need to offer a rational for selection of cases, how they measure habit and its attributes, summarize their findings in relation to the hypotheses, etc. Generally, I would recommend providing a bit more succinct detail in four areas.

First, in terms of practical motivations (offered at the beginning of Howard’s article) falling back on habit may work against US ideals (norms) and strategic (rational) interests. In terms of practical lessons learned from this article – how can foreign policy makers avoid falling back on habit and pursue policy making practices that align more closely with strategic interests? If you could zero in on this both at the beginning and end of the article, that would have been good. I think Howard offers some pretty compelling moments where US policy makers could have broken their habits.

Second, provide more details about the cases, the sources of data, the method of process tracing and the measurements or variables that Howard used to confirm for or against her hypotheses. What are the measures and their attributes for knowing habit is at work, rather than norms or rationality? Why select these cases and then the cases within the cases? What methodological approach did Howard take? How did Howard analyze the data systematically? (what did she do to test whether there was one support for her hypothesis or not?)

Third, provide a much shorter, but specific summary of findings from the 5 decision points as they relate to confirming or not the hypotheses.

Fourth, you might have a more compelling conclusions if you answered the questions- what do we learn in terms of research findings and what are next steps in measuring habit and its attributes? (this could be answered in terms of different cases, different measures or attributes) What did we learn practically? How can habit be broken?

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