Speeches / Deciding on a subject for my Informative Speech [2]

I have to write an informative speech for my required public speaking class

I thought I would kill two birds with one stone and write something related to what I've been reading for my International politics class as sources for my speech. I feel like I could become more familiar with the my reading by trying to explain it. I also have a 40% midterm coming up in that class, so I could use all the studying I can get. What I would really like to do would be to explain political realism and present some contrasting points of view on the idea. I was thinking about comparing Mearsheimer and Waltz to Tickner and Wendt.

I ran the idea by my professor and he told me it would be too boring. A staement with which I partially agree.Im not sure how well it would compete against subjects like Michael Jordans early years and the difficulties associated with caring for horses. I was hoping for some ideas on how I could make it more interesting and relevant. Ive mostly been looking for a good current event I could relate its principles to, but Im also not sure if that would really be enough and I havent found anything

While looking for something more exciting, I also had the idea to do an article on the definiton, strategy, and effectiveness of terrorism, however, I don't really know where I want to go with that and any help would be appreciated. right now Im looking "Inside Terrorism" by Bruce Hoffman and "The Coercive Logic of Suicide terroism" by Robert Pape I need to have three souces and cannot find another to complement those.

I also have to sum up whatever I want to do into a 4-5 minute speech and remember it all.