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Resources and Applied Methods in International Relations

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • Constitutes a concise and rich methodological guide for students and professors of IR as well as practitioners in the field
  • Offers a fresh look at methods by French scholars in a field dominated by US/UK scholarship
  • Features concrete examples and cases studied analyzed with the specific objective of showing methods and tools

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
  2. Preliminary Reflections Open for Discussion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Describing, Representing, Interpreting

      • Guillaume Devin, Marie-Françoise Durand
      Pages 3-18
  3. Discussing Some Resources and How to Deal with Them

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
    2. Taking Images Seriously, How to Analyze Them?

      • Corentin Cohen, Frédéric Ramel
      Pages 43-56
    3. Imagining and Representing the Spatial Aspect of Actors and Societies

      • Marie-Françoise Durand, Benoît Martin
      Pages 57-73
    4. The UN Internet Portal, Institutional Multilateralism Caught in the Web

      • Mélanie Albaret, Delphine Placidi-Frot
      Pages 75-92
  4. Going Out in the Field

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
    2. The Field Study

      • Marieke Louis, Lucile Maertens, Marie Saiget
      Pages 95-108
    3. Interviews in International Relations

      • Delphine Alles, Auriane Guilbaud, Delphine Lagrange
      Pages 109-122
  5. What Quantitative Methods Can Bring Us

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123
    2. On Words and Discourse: From Quantitative to Qualitative

      • Alice Baillat, Fabien Emprin, Frédéric Ramel
      Pages 151-165
    3. Classifying, Ordering, Quantifying

      • Milena Dieckhoff, Benoît Martin, Charles Tenenbaum
      Pages 167-182
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 183-187

About this book

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. 

Reviews

“This volume brings together a very rich collection of chapters on methods of IR. Most chapters were 'tried' on various generations of astute students at Sciences Po. As a result, authors have provided us with one of the most convincing introductory statements of how IR scholars actually do research.” (Thierry Balzacq, Francqui Research Chair, University of Namur, Belgium)

“An essential—and rare—instrument for achieving empirical research in International Relations, combining the common expertise of the discipline with the distinctive characteristics of the French approach.” (Bertrand Badie, Full Professor, Sciences Po, Paris, France)

“Building on the rich tradition of French international political sociology, Guillaume Devin and his contributors do a real service to students of International Relations, by combining a set of clear ‘how-to’ guides with lucid discussions of the merits and limits of a variety of methods, ranging from interviews to archival research, from cartography to statistics, and from the analysis of discourse to that of images.” (Vincent Pouliot, Professor and William Dawson Scholar, McGill University, Canada)

Editors and Affiliations

  • CERI Sciences Po, Paris, France

    Guillaume Devin

About the editor

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

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