Research Methods in International Relations

Research methods in International Relations can be daunting to grasp, but put simply they are the tools and techniques used by students and academics to properly design research questions, and more importantly to reach persuasive and credible answers to those questions. The resources below outline the methods used in International Relations, starting from basic overviews and the levels of analysis, and then continue into more specific and detailed areas.

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Qualitative Methods in International Relations

A Pluralist Guide

  • © 2008
  • Audie Klotz 0 ,
  • Deepa Prakash 1

Department of Political Science, The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, USA

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Part of the book series: ECPR Research Methods (REMES)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

Front matter, introduction.

  • Audie Klotz

Research Design

Thinking tools.

  • Anna Leander

Feminist Methodological Reflection

  • Brooke Ackerly

Case Selection

Classic qualitative tools, discourse analysis.

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Historical Representations

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Ethnographic Research

  • Hugh Gusterson

Process Tracing

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Boundary Crossing Techniques

Political personality profiling.

  • Jerrold M. Post
  • Margaret G. Hermann

Pragmatic Analysis

  • Gavan Duffy

Agent-based Modeling

  • Matthew J. Hoffmann

Implications

‘qualitative’ methods.

  • Samuel Barkin

Practicing Pluralism

  • Deepa Prakash

Back Matter

Editors and affiliations.

Audie Klotz, Deepa Prakash

About the editors

Bibliographic information.

Book Title : Qualitative Methods in International Relations

Book Subtitle : A Pluralist Guide

Editors : Audie Klotz, Deepa Prakash

Series Title : ECPR Research Methods

DOI : https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230584129

Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan London

eBook Packages : Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection , Political Science and International Studies (R0)

Copyright Information : Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008

Hardcover ISBN : 978-0-230-54239-6 Published: 27 February 2008

Softcover ISBN : 978-0-230-24175-6 Published: 27 February 2008

eBook ISBN : 978-0-230-58412-9 Published: 27 February 2008

Series ISSN : 2947-5201

Series E-ISSN : 2947-521X

Edition Number : 1

Number of Pages : XII, 260

Topics : International Relations , Political Science , Political History , Globalization

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