Resources and Applied Methods in International Relations

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-61978-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 187 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3796 g

Reihe: The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy

This book constitutes an up-to-date methodology reference work for International Relations (IR) scholars and students. The study of IR calls for the use of multiple and various tools to try and describe international phenomena, analyze and understand them, compare them, interpret them, and try to offer theoretical approaches. In a nutshell, doing research in IR requires both tools and methods—from the use of archives to the translation of results through mapping, from conducting interviews to analyzing quantitative data, from constituting a corpus to the always touchy interpretation of images and discourses. This volume assembles twenty young researchers and professors in the field of IR and political science to discuss numerous rich and thoroughly explained case studies. Merging traditional political science approaches with methods borrowed from  sociology and history, it offers a clear and instructive synthesis of the main resources and applied methods to study International Relations.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Devin, Guillaume

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Internationale Organisationen und Institutionen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PrefaceGuillaume Devin
Part I: Preliminary Reflections Open For Discussion1. Describing, Representing, InterpretingGuillaume Devin and Marie-Françoise Durand
2. Constructing Subjects and Comparison in International Relations StudiesThomas Lindemann
Part II: Discussing Some Resources and How to Deal With Them
3. Consulting Foreign Affairs Archives in France and AmericaUna Bergmane
4. Taking Images Seriously: How to Analyze Them?Corentin Cohen and Frédéric Ramel
5. Imagining and Representing the Spacial Aspect of Actors and SocietiesMarie-Françoise Durand and Benoît Martin
6. The UN Internet Portal: Institutional Multilateralism Caught in the WebMélanie Albaret and Delphine Placidi-Frot
Part III: Going Out in the Field
7. The Field StudyMarieke Louis, Lucile Maertens and Marie Saiget8. Interviews in International RelationsDelphine Allès, Auriane Guilbaud and Delphine LagrangePart IV: What Quantitative Methods Can Bring Us
9. Examples of Quantitative Data Processing in International RelationsSimon Hug
10. Multiple Correspondence Analysis in international RelationsMédéric Martin-Mazé
11. On Words and Discourse: From Quantitative to QualitativeAlice Baillat, Fabien Emprin and Frédéric Ramel
12. Classifying, Ordering, QuantifyingMilena Dieckhoff, Benoît Martin and Charles Tenenbaum

Über Autor(innen)

Guillaume Devin is Professor of Political Science at CERI Sciences Po, Paris, France.