There are, however, some necessary conditions for an honors paper.
None is sufficient, for an honors paper achieves a remarkable synthesis of a number of attributes.
Many students have achieved honors in International Relations since the program began in 1981, including several who declared International Relations as a special major prior to 1981. Click here for a list of honors in International Relations since 1979. In the social sciences, an argument is a statement that a certain causal relationship exists between two or more human realities. These are descriptive, not causal statements. This is a very formal definition of an argument.