Research Awards
Ok guys,
You have the hardest jobs position paper wise, so I am going to give you the option to do something a little more unorthodox, more fun, and harder for me to grade 
You will have 2 options:
1) Write a Position Paper on the government as of January 1st 2008. (if you have already written you paper, don’t sweat it just write an “as of” note on it)
2) Write what will happen, what will the Pakistani political landscape look like in General as of March 2008, and extrapolate your ministers position. Give me a guess of a name, policy and please back it up with solid research and sound logic. If you have any questions email me at dane(at)berkeley.edu. The main point of this exercise is to see how good you are at political analysis, a very important crisis skill. Also, if you write a paper like this, the person who comes the closest to predicting how Pakistani politics will look in March 2008, will win a prize!!!
And a short word on length. There is no page limit, but make it good! If it is long winded and bores me I will mark you down off the bat. I know this is a HUGE cliche, but I would rather have 5 great pages than 15 so so pages. If you email me your papers I would be happy to look them over and give general feedback before final submission. Also, I will accept Wikipedia as a valid source, if the article looks good, a lot of the facts are backed up by sources. Use your common sense, if the title is “Bhutto had to a painful death to cleanse her soul.. etc etc etc” don’t use it please 
Cheers,
Per
January 15th, 2008 at 10:28 am
[…] Firstly, I’m sure you’ll be saddened by the fact that I won’t be the one issuing final grades on your papers. While I will be reading each and every one of them (the ones we get on time at least), my Vice Chairs will be assigning grades by their own judgments. Already, Mr. Steenstrup has posted what he looks for on his Pakistani Cabinet Blog. I’m sure that in due time, other Chairs will post on their blogs if there is anything special they want you to take into account. And, as they’ll be the ones grading you, it’s probably an excellent idea to follow their instructions. […]