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Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Neoclassical Realism


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article could use some serious work. While it is written well without bias, there is little discussion of alternate ideologies as well as no array of interpretations of the term. There have been many different perspectives formed by the many theorists that developed neoclassical realism, and there is little to no discussion about these perspectives. The article is more of a summary than including any in-depth information.


 * Sources
 * Useful sources that could expand on this baseline include
 * FOULON, M. (2015). Neoclassical Realism: Challengers and Bridging Identities. International Studies Review, 17(4), 635–661. https://doi.org/10.1111/misr.12255
 * Smith, K. (2019). Recollecting a lost dialogue: Structural Realism meets neoclassical realism. International Relations, 33(3), 494–513. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117819834636
 * Meibauer, G. (2020). Interests, ideas, and the study of state behaviour in neoclassical realism. Review of International Studies, 46(1), 20–36. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210519000214

Option 2

 * Article title
 * War Termination


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article reads more like a college research paper, as opposed to an objective piece of information created for consumption by the people. Rather than showing the author's understanding of the concept, share the understandings of many instead. There are a few citations needed, and the theories that the author mentions are minimally explained. The article needs to be reworded in many locations, and needs further expansion on theories it references.


 * Sources
 * Sources that could expand understanding of war termination and give explanation to many of the references that are given in the article but are not explained include
 * Mastro, O. S. (2018). The Theory and Practice of War Termination: Assessing Patterns in China’s Historical Behavior. International Studies Review, 20(4), 661–684. https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/vix061
 * FLORES, A. Q. (2012). A Competing Risks Model of War Termination and Leader Change. International Studies Quarterly, 56(4), 809–819. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2478.2012.00735.x
 * Sanctuary, Honor, and War Termination: Considerations for Strategy in Baltic Defense. (2020). Orbis, 64(1), 150–160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orbis.2019.12.010

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Geopolitics


 * Article Evaluation
 * A little more developed than the previous articles, citations are the main issue of this article. The subject of geopolitics could also use to be expanded on heavily, but citations must be resolved first. There are multiple claims that are missing citation. It's worth noting that the page also only focuses on 5 states, and this could use much more expansion. The article is well-written, but the citations are the glaring issue.


 * Sources
 * Sources to expand on geopolitics with further perspectives include
 * Koch, N. (2019). Post-triumphalist Geopolitics: Liberal Selves, Authoritarian Others. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 18(4), 909–924.
 * Nguyen, N. (2020). On geopolitics and education: Interventions, possibilities, and future directions. Geography Compass, 14(9), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12500
 * Prokkola, E.-K. (2020). Geopolitics of Border Securitization: Sovereignty, Nationalism and Solidarity in Asylum Reception in Finland. Geopolitics, 25(4), 867–886. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2018.1520213

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Feminist Constructivism


 * Article Evaluation
 * Quite the well-written article, and it holds proper citations as well. It could use some expanding on its topics, especially the "influence on politics" section. It is written in a proper academic and simply requires more content to be an exceptional article.


 * Sources
 * Some sources that could help expand on the topic include
 * Prins, B. (1995). The ethics of hybrid subjects: Feminist constructivism according to Donna Haraway. Science, Technology & Human Values, 20(3), 352. https://doi.org/10.1177/016224399502000305
 * Honkanen, K. (2005). “It is Historically Constituted.” European Journal of Women’s Studies, 12(3), 281–295. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506805054269
 * Soper, K. (1995). Feminism and ecology: Realism and rhetoric in the discourses of nature. Science, Technology & Human Values, 20(3), 311. https://doi.org/10.1177/016224399502000303

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Institutional Liberalism


 * Article Evaluation
 * Written well, but requires further citations and expansion on topics. It gives a baseline definition without expanding on the concept or giving more than surface relations to other related concepts. The sources are also fairly outdated.


 * Sources
 * Keohane, R. O. (2012). Twenty Years of Institutional Liberalism. International Relations, 26(2), 125–138. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117812438451
 * Porter, D., & Watts, M. (2017). Righting the Resource Curse: Institutional Politics and State Capabilities in Edo State, Nigeria. Journal of Development Studies, 53(2), 249–263. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2016.1160062
 * Tallberg, J., Lundgren, M., Sommerer, T., & Squatrito, T. (2020). Why International Organizations Commit to Liberal Norms. International Studies Quarterly, 64(3), 626–640. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqaa046