Resources and Applied Methods in International Relations

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

Buch, Englisch, 187 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, 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

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Describing, Representing, Interpreting.- 2. Constructing Subjects and Comparison in International Relations Studies.- 3. Consulting Foreign Affairs Archives in France and America.- 4. Taking Images Seriously: How to Analyze Them?.- 5. Imagining and Representing the Spacial Aspect of Actors and Societies.- 6. The UN Internet Portal: Institutional Multilateralism Caught in the Web.- 7. The Field Study .- 8. Interviews in International Relations.- 9. Examples of Quantitative Data Processing in International Relations.- 10. Multiple Correspondence Analysis in international Relations.- 11. On Words and Discourse: From Quantitative to Qualitative.- 12. Classifying, Ordering, Quantifying.

Über Autor(innen)

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