Order Description
This review essay is for the course “International Relations of the Middle East” in an International Relations Major.

Here is the description given for the essay review.

This review Essay should engages in a critical discussion of the literary work with special emphasis on the intellectual
merit of the work being reviewed.

Review essays consist of an introduction, summary of the article, critical discussion, and a brief conclusion. The introduction and the article summary should be short (not more than a few lines for each) and serve as a basis for the body of the review essay which is the critical discussion of the text.

In the context of scholarly inquiry, a “
critical discussion” evaluates the
contribution of the text under review to the discipline of IR or its contribution across
disciplines. As a starting point, cons
ider how the article seeks to advance the debate(s) in which the author has chosen to participate. This means you must situate the work in the intellectual context in which it is written. In particular, you need to identify the controversies or problems that the author seeks to address.

Ordinarily, an author will define the context for you as he/she understands it in the
introduction of the article. Once you have addressed the key questions and focus of the article you are then in a position to critically examine the intellectual merit of the work. You may choose to assess whether the evidence supports the author’s thesis, whether the
author has considered alternative explanations for the same outcome, or whether the argument is internally consistent.