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Operation Condor

Final Essay: Prompt

(Due Wednesday morning, Dec. 6, by 10:00 AM)

Assignment Rationale:We’ve spent the semester building up to a writing a relatively short original research essay using both primary and secondary sources.You’ve built a bibliography, analyzed the historiography, developed a prospectus, and worked with primary sources. Now is the time when you put this all together.  

The Assignment:Write an original research essay in the style of a peer-reviewed journal article (I’ve posted a model essay with this prompt). This means that your essay should: introduce the topic and its significance, assess the existing historiography (in this case it’s not the total historiography, it is just the four books or equivalent that you’ve had approved), introduce a new question that you will be trying to answer with your primary source research, and then use the primary sources to construct an analytical or narrative (or both) essay. To make it easier, I recommend that you follow the following script (you can use my headings but you don’t have to):

Introduction (c. 1-2 pages)

This section will introduce the topic and its significance and then preview the contribution (i.e. what you’re going to be doing that is new) and argument you’ll be making. If you need to provide a brief summary of key events, it should go in this section.

Historiography (c. 2-4 pages)

This section should provide a summary of the existing historiography in a manner that highlights what’s missing from that historiography (the lacuna!).

Original section based mainly in the primary sources (c. 4-8 pages)

If you are using headings, name this something related to your argument (e.g. “The Hidden Origins of the Nicaraguan Peace Process”). This section should be the bulk of your essay and mostly use primary sources to tell whatever story you’re trying to tell in either an analytical or narrative (or both) fashion. In our primary source essay earlier, I asked you to only use primary sources. For this part of your final essay, you are welcome to intersperse primary and secondary sources, but this section should be based overwhelmingly on your original research in the primary sources. This should not be a summary of events based in the secondary sources.

Conclusion (c. 1 page)

Reiterate what has come before in the paper.

Bibliography in Chicago Style

Key Requirements:

1.The paper should be written in your best, most polished prose. Revise, revise, revise.

2.The paper should be from 8-15 pages in length (roughly 2400 words to 4500 words)

3.The paper should be in 12-point font and double spaced.

You must cite all of your evidence using Chicago Style. I am going to hammer you on this if you don’t have this right by now, so make sure you get this right.

Follow the instructions above carefully. This paper has specific requirements.

a.Be vigilant about plagiarism. Make sure you use YOUR OWN WORDS or put quotation marks around information drawn from the text. Cite your sources. If you plagiarize it’s a 0 on the assignment and I have to report your academic misconduct to the College.

b.Start early and work on it a little bit every day.

c.Think hard and have fun!

Expert Solution

Operation Condor, a secret operation in the unstable South American landscape of the 1970s and 1980s, cast a shadow over the right-wing cone, targeted left-wing groups, and left a lasting legacy of atrocities and unanswered questions. The study examines regional security, leftist insurgencies, and integrated states. Although existing studies have examined Condor's historical trajectory and responses, the present article seeks to contribute by critically reconsidering the written history that has so far shaped the understanding of this operation. Importantly, the study attempts to raise a new question that focuses on an overlooked aspect: the extent to which the U.S. has been involved and with much support from leaders from the Southern Cone.

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