Choose one of the following three questions for your final paper (4-5 pages double-spaced) based on our work for the second half of the course (Units 3 and 4). This should be a standard expository essay in which you state your topic and thesis in the introduction.
You should then use the body of the paper to provide evidence supporting your thesis, drawing from the required readings and/or lectures (additional outside sources are acceptable but not necessary for the paper). You should conclude with a short final note recapitulating how you have demonstrated the main point.
1. The issue of U.S. power in Latin America and the Caribbean has arisen at multiple points during the second half of our course. Discuss the role of the United States in two cases we’ve studied (from 1898 to the present). Examine both the operation of and the limits to US power or influence.