'a provocative thesis' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to a statement or argument that is intended to challenge accepted opinions or stir up debate. For example, "The author's provocative thesis that the current system of education is outdated and needs to be completely overhauled has sparked a heated debate in the educational community."
This is a provocative thesis, especially in the light of what happened next.
Snyder advances a provocative thesis (though in workmanlike prose laced with far too much poli-sci jargon).
It may also open minds to a provocative thesis that, until a short time ago, might have been dismissed as breathless hyperbole.
A provocative thesis that takes us beyond conventional assumptions resides in a journal article not fit for an undergrad's Twitter universe: "On Intertemporal Selfishness: The Perceived Instability of Identity Underlies Impatient Consumption".
So perhaps it is not surprising that a provocative thesis — that the United States should share power with China in the Asia-Pacific region — should come from a former Australian government defense official.
The rise of lager beer, and the great names associated with it — names like Busch, Pabst, Blatz, Schlitz and Miller — is the subject of Maureen Ogle's effervescent, occasionally frothy "Ambitious Brew," a fairly standard history with a provocative thesis attached.
It's a smart, provocative thesis.
A compelling and provocative thesis that has lessons for politicians today.Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Incident and the Illusion of Safety.
And after the empire was unceremoniously dissolved in 1806, the struggle to contain Germany became the leitmotif of successive European and world wars.It is a compelling and provocative thesis, albeit one that is more persuasive once it gets to the 18th century, Mr Simms's previous stamping-ground.
With that and other controversies in mind, I wanted to give Jarvis's provocative thesis a fair hearing.
That is the provocative thesis of a new paper by Navid Hassanpour, a political science graduate student at Yale, titled "Media Disruption Exacerbates Revolutionary Unrest".
