Qualitative Methods in International Relations

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Audie Klotz

      Pages 1-7

3. Research Design

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Thinking Tools

      • Anna Leander

      Pages 11-27

   3. Feminist Methodological Reflection

      • Brooke Ackerly

      Pages 28-42

   4. Case Selection

      • Audie Klotz

      Pages 43-58

4. Classic Qualitative Tools

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59

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   2. Discourse Analysis

      • Iver B. Neumann

      Pages 61-77

   3. Historical Representations

      • Kevin C. Dunn

      Pages 78-92

   4. Ethnographic Research

      • Hugh Gusterson

      Pages 93-113

   5. Process Tracing

      • Jeffrey T. Checkel

      Pages 114-127

5. Boundary Crossing Techniques

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129

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   2. Political Personality Profiling

      • Jerrold M. Post

      Pages 131-150

   3. Content Analysis

      • Margaret G. Hermann

      Pages 151-167

   4. Pragmatic Analysis

      • Gavan Duffy

      Pages 168-186

   5. Agent-based Modeling

      • Matthew J. Hoffmann

      Pages 187-208

6. Implications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209

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   2. ‘Qualitative’ Methods?

      • Samuel Barkin

      Pages 211-220

   3. Practicing Pluralism

      • Deepa Prakash

      Pages 221-237

7. Back Matter

   Pages 238-260

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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.

• Content Analysis
• empirical research
• international relations
• modeling
• personality
• pluralism
• research

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

  Audie Klotz, Deepa Prakash

BROOKE ACKERLY Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University, USA SAMUEL BARKIN Associate Professor at the University of Florida, USA JEFFREY T.CHECKEL Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo and Adjunct Research Professor at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, Norway GAVAN DUFFY Associate Professor at Syracuse University, USA KEVIN C.DUNN Associate Professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA HUGH GUSTERSON Professor of Cultural Studies at George Mason University, USA MARGARET G. HERMANN Gerald B and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs and Director of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, USA MATTHEW J.HOFFMAN Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada ANNA LEANDER Associate Professor in the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark IVER B.NEUMANN Professor of Russian Studies at Oslo University and Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Norway JERROLD M. POST Professor in the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University and Director of its Political Psychology program, USA.

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