Research Question: How does the competition for natural resources in the South China Sea affect the United States’ and China’s policies on climate change and their overall relationship?
- Literature Review – only include articles from databases, journal articles, etc.
- Should include:
- Sources that are in conversation with the paper
- Sources should be those that ask the same research question or related research questions
- Sources should those with authors examining a similar topic that is relevant for thinking about the answer to your question
- The central task for the literature review is to reveal the gap in existing research
- In the end of the literature review, readers should be able to answer the following questions:
- Has someone else already done what you are doing?
- What are the existing debates surrounding/related to your research question
- What is inadequate about these existing debates/studies?
- Bibliography