I need a politics dissertation topic!!!?

Question

I'm writing my final dissertation for a degree in Politics, I am particularly interested in International Security and terrorism and have specialised in these areas alongside American politics and International Relations. Problem is, I can't find a dissertation topic! I know how to go about researching, but I need suggestions of topics for inspiration!!!

Answer 1

Perhaps a focus on our interventionist policies creating tensions among the people of other countries. Looking to countries like Sweden or any other neutral country and the amount of terrorist actions played out against those countries. As well as our country's history of security problems based on the countries we interfered with.

Answer 2

Was it a mistake that America "won" the Cold War- a condition that set the grounds for muslim extremist to forge on and terrorize the whole world? Discuss the situation then before the 'end of the cold war' and the years that followed it. These are the turning points of modern history, the period of consolidation for muslim terrorist. You could touch on the "Taliban years" in Kabul and how such 'victory' emboldened the muslins to export their "'Jihad".Those were the years when Bin Ladin became serious in his fight against the US which culminated with 9/11. You could include to those critical years when America was engrossed by the 'monica affair' while extremist groups were quietly establishing terrorist cells in the US. Good luck

Answer 3

You need to get a copy of the (still hot off the press) book and have yourself a great old time. Something you come accross is BOUND to get your meter ticking (Dean was interviewed by Jon Stewart on the Daily Show tonight):

Conservatives Without Conscience (Hardcover)
by John Dean

About the Author?John Dean was White House legal
counsel to President Nixon for a thousand days. Dean
also served as chief minority counsel for the House
Judiciary Committee and as an associate deputy
attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice

Los Angeles Times Book Review for Worse Than Watergate
A detailed...powerful case in a riveting book.

The Washington Post for Worse Than Watergate
Searing... an angry indictment.

The New York Times Book Review for Worse Than
Watergate
Dean has again amassed evidence of a cancer growing on
the presidency.

Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly

In his seventh book, Dean, the former Nixon legal
counsel whom the FBI has called the "master
manipulator" of the Watergate coverup, weighs in with
a rebuke to Christian fundamentalists and other
right-wing hard-liners. A self-described Goldwater
conservative (indeed, Goldwater had planned to
collaborate on this book before his death), he rails
against the influence of social conservatives and
neoconservatives within his party. Suffused with
bitterness stemming from the controversies in which he
has been embroiled, Dean's book paints a thin social
science veneer over a litany of mostly ad hominem
complaints. Purporting to show that social
conservatives and neoconservatives are, on the whole,
demonstrably authoritarian, bigoted, irrational and
amoral, Conservatives Without Conscience offers
helpful hints such as "Conservatives without
conscience do not have horns and tails," and evinces a
telling fascination with politicians' shady book
deals. Though there is clearly much to condemn in the
policies and tactics Dean deplores, assailing everyone
from French political theorist Joseph de Maistre to
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist to the chairman of
Yale University's conservative association as "Double
High" social- dominance-oriented authoritarians
undermines his journalistic credibility. Dean's lurid
accusations may be entertaining, but they add little
to the reasoned debate that Washington so sorely lacks
today. (July 11)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of
Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

From Booklist
*Starred Review*

With the perspective of a former
Republican political insider, and experience in the
Watergate scandal when he was White House counsel to
Nixon, Dean takes a sincere, well-considered look at
how conservative politics in the U.S. is veering
dangerously close to authoritarianism, offering a
penetrating and highly disturbing portrait of many of
the major players in Republican politics and power.
Looking back on the development of conservative
politics in the U.S., Dean notes that conservatism is
regressing to its authoritarian roots. Dean draws on
five decades of social science research that details
the personality traits of what are called "double high
authoritarians": self-righteous, mean-spirited,
amoral, manipulative, bullying. He concludes that
Chuck Colson, Pat Robertson, Newt Gingrich, and Tom
DeLay are all textbook examples. Dean calls
Vice-President Cheney "the architect of Bush's
authoritarian policies," and deems Bush "a mental
lightweight with a strong right-wing authoritarian
personality." Dean maintains that conservatives
without conscience have produced such a hostile,
noncollegial environment in Congress that threats of
resistance through filibusters have been met with
threats of a "nuclear option" and that conservatives
have used fearmongering about terrorist attacks to the
point where the nation faces a greater threat of
relinquishing its ideals of democracy. Dean appeals to
conservatives to find their consciences and to all
Americans to take serious heed of what is going on in
the nation. Readers of all political perspectives will
find this book riveting. Vanessa Bush
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights
reserved

Answer 4

Hey! use the giant lie about why we should have to pay taxes. Alaska PAYS every resident and has no taxes. The oil, minerals, ores, ect. all belong to the residents. The companies that take the Earth's goods pay the state for them. The money goes into a fund and the fund pays ALL the states expences and PAYS all the residents $1000 p/yr.
If the nation had a program like Alaska uses, the feds could PAY every household $50,000 p/yr and have NO taxes.


The Alaska state constitution claims common heritage rights of ownership of oil and other minerals for the people of the state as a whole. Citizen dividend checks are distributed every year in Alaska out of the interest payments to an oil royalties deposit account called the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) created in 1976 after oil was discovered on the North Slope. The APF is a public trust fund - a diversified stock, bond and real estate portfolio - into which are deposited the oil royalties received from the corporations which extract the oil from the lands of Alaska. The first citizen dividend check from the interest of the APF was issued in 1982 and was for $1000 per every person for everyone in Alaska who had resided in the state for at least one year. Annual citizen dividends have been issued every year since then, for a total of more than $23,000 per person.

In 2003, each of the nearly 600,000 Alaska US citizens (residents of Alaska for at least one year) received a check for $1,107 from the APF. The total amount dispersed was $663.2 million. The $25 billion investment fund's core experienced stock market losses which led to the dividend's decline this past year compared to the several previous years. The amount was $433 less, a 28 percent drop from the 2002 pay out of $1,540, and a 44 percent decrease from the all-time high of $1,964 in year 2000. The amount changes based on a five-year average of APF investment income derived from the bonds, stock dividends, real estate and other investments.

Alaska relies on oil for about 80 percent of its revenue and has no sales or income tax. Alaska state government is mandated to invest 25% of its oil revenue into the APF while the other 75% of oil royalty revenue is dispersed to other government funds to finance education, infrastructure and social services. If 100% of Alaska's oil royalties had been deposited into the APF, it is conceivable that the CD this year could have been about $4,400 or $17,600 for a family of four. But then there would have been no funds for roads, education and other public services and no funds available to run the state legislature - a libertarian dream fulfillment or a social and economic disaster, which one we will never know. If state services were to have been maintained while 100% of oil royalties were deposited in the APF, there would of course have been the need for income, sales and other taxes on wages and production.

Answer 5

Possible Topics
Focus on How terror groups cooperate and interact with their allied states.
How States quell insurgencies successfully.
The origins of Islamic Fascisim
The Alliance of the Western Left with the Islamic Fascists

Answer 6

How about something related to sept 11?

"Discuss how the role of international security changed within politics after sept 11. In particular pay attention to the actions of a couple of raggety *** towel heads, mention in your essay the roles that their tea towels played in the event"

Answer 7

You could use Afganistan as a nation building question...
for example what could have been the potential in the region to create a real change.

What influence has the west had on its overall progress

and how did the Taliban or Al Queda return to the region?

Is it a failure will it suceed.

Answer 8

Nazi America?

"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country"
Hermann Göring 1946 Nuremburg trials(Nazi)

Answer 9

Improvement of Accuracy and Communication of Intelligence?