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Your topic on comparative analysis of best practices in the US Dept of Homeland Security and the UAE’s Ministry of Interior, UAE Federal Supreme Counsel, UAE Federal Custom Authority, Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship and General Authority of Ports, Borders & Free Zone Security is an important one. An outline of your topic will:

1. When US Dept of Homeland Security was formed and why

2. State the problem or Significance of the topic (why it’s important, from your perspective)

3. Key question/s that your paper will seek to answer (e.g., what are the similarities and differences or identify best practices that the UAE’s Ministry of Interior, UAE Federal Supreme Counsel, UAE Federal Custom Authority, Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship and General Authority of Ports, Borders & Free Zone Security can adopt: inter/intra-agency coordination)

4. Primary and secondary sources you’ll use in your research on this topic 5. Structure of your paper Primary sources are official speeches, leaders’ statements, policy documents, interviews with practitioners, original Arabic language newspapers, articles or books.

Another example is an official statement such as this one: https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-united-arab-emirates/ Secondary sources are English-language analytical reports by think tanks working on the Mid-east, books or articles by experts, and oped pieces in non-Arabic English/French newspapers.