Resources and Applied Methods in International Relations

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Devin, Guillaume (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy
• Subjects: International relations.; Sociology-Research.; Diplomacy.; International organization.; Political theory.; Political economy.; International Relations Theory.; Research Methodology.; International Organization.; Political Theory.; International 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 of...

Table of Contents:

• 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.