As noted on the syllabus , you need to turn in three 7-10 page papers for the course, and you have a good deal of flexibility in deciding what to do. You can choose any three of the five options outlined below. If the assignment takes the form of a question, make sure you answer it. And you should also make sure also that your paper is well-written, without grammatical or spelling errors.
References can be in any of the standard formats.
Please don't waste time at the start of your paper giving general background. Just plunge right into the analysis. Just make a good faith effort and see how far you can get. That Halperin article, by the way, is a model for what an analytical historical article should be, the sort of article you should try to emulate when doing these assignments. In the last resort she did so because once a major political crisis had developed out of the Dual Control, the established rules of British foreign policy forced her to insure against foreign dominance of an area of first-class political importance.