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Record Nr.

UNINA9910737299403321

Titolo

Resources and Applied Methods in International Relations / / edited by Guillaume Devin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-61979-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXI, 187 p. 20 illus., 6 illus. in color.)

Collana

The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy

Disciplina

327.072

Soggetti

International relations - Research

Diplomacy

International organization

Political theory

Political economy

International Relations Theory

Research Methodology

International Organization

Political Theory

International Political Economy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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. .