Qualitative Methods in International Relations: A Pluralist Guide

✍ Scribed by Audie Klotz, Deepa Prakash (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 267
• Series: Research Methods Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

We still lack practical answers to one of the most basic questions in empirical research:How should researchers interpret meanings? The contributors take seriously the goals of both post-modernist and positivist researchers, as they offer detailed guidance on how to apply specific tools of analysis and how to circumvent their inherent limitations.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Thinking Tools....Pages 11-27
Feminist Methodological Reflection....Pages 28-42
Case Selection....Pages 43-58
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
Discourse Analysis....Pages 61-77
Historical Representations....Pages 78-92
Ethnographic Research....Pages 93-113
Process Tracing....Pages 114-127
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Political Personality Profiling....Pages 131-150
Content Analysis....Pages 151-167
Pragmatic Analysis....Pages 168-186
Agent-based Modeling....Pages 187-208
Front Matter....Pages 209-209
‘Qualitative’ Methods?....Pages 211-220
Practicing Pluralism....Pages 221-237
Back Matter....Pages 238-260

✦ Subjects

International Relations;Political Science;Political History;Globalization