International Relations ? - An example of a hypothesis in which you can specify the independent variable.....?

The full question(s) is:

Please list two forms which hypothesis make take.

Which are: x causes y

x is correlated with y.



Please give one example of a hypothesis in which you clearly specify which is (are) the independent variable(s) and which is the dependent variable.



I don't know how to answer that question, and what to use as an example. Please help! Remember this is international relations.International Relations ? - An example of a hypothesis in which you can specify the independent variable.....?
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