Week of September 14: Introduction
G. King, et al., Designing Social Inquiry, chap. 1 (scan, Moodle)
Week of September 21: Concept and Methods
J. Levy, “Qualitative Methods in International Relations,” in F. Harvey and M. Brecher, eds., Evaluating Methodology in International Studies
(scan)
Levy, Jack S. "Qualitative methods and cross-method dialogue in political science." Comparative Political Studies 40, no. 2 (2007): 196-214.
Bennett, Andrew, and Colin Elman. "Qualitative methods: The view from the subfields." (2007): 111-121.
Tickner, J. Ann. "What is your research program? Some feminist answers to international relations methodological questions." International Studies Quarterly 49, no. 1 (2005): 1-21.
Week September 28: Case Studies
Bennett, Andrew, and Colin Elman. "Case study methods in the international relations subfield." Comparative Political Studies 40, no. 2 (2007): 170-195.
George, Alexander L., Andrew Bennett, Sean M. Lynn-Jones, and Steven E. Miller. Case studies and theory development in the social sciences. MIT Press, 2005 (electronic version available through Google Scholar)
Tanisha M. Fazal, Wars of Law: Unintended Consequences in the Regulation of Armed Conflict (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018) chap 3(Moodle) (example of use of case studies in a mixed methods approach)
Week of October 5: Process Tracing/Path Dependency/Historical Institutionalism
A. Bennett and C. Elman, “Case study method in the international relations,” Comparative Political Studies 40 (2007)
Capoccia, Giovanni, and R. Daniel Kelemen. "The study of critical junctures: Theory, narrative, and counterfactuals in historical institutionalism." World politics 59, no. 3 (2007): 341-369.
Fioretos, Orfeo. "Historical institutionalism in international relations." International Organization 65, no. 2 (2011): 367-399.
Week of October 12: Archival and Related Research
Schultz, Lucille M. Beyond the archives: Research as a lived process. SIU Press, 2008, foreword, chaps. 1-2 (electronic source, Google Scholar).
Simmons, Beth A. "International studies in the global information age." International Studies Quarterly 55, no. 3 (2011): 589-599.
Michael, Gabriel J. "Who's Afraid of WikiLeaks? Missed Opportunities in Political Science Research." Review of Policy Research 32, no. 2 (2015): 175-199.
Week of October 19: Comparative Methods
De Lombaerde, Philippe, Fredrik Söderbaum, Luk Van Langenhove, and Francis Baert. "The problem of comparison in comparative regionalism." Review of International Studies36, no. 3 (2010): 731-753.
Mahoney, James. "Qualitative methodology and comparative politics." Comparative Political Studies 40, no. 2 (2007): 122-144.
Mahoney, James, and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds. Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences. Cambridge University Press, 2003, chapter one (available electronically through Google Scholar)
Week of October 26: Discourse Analysis
Milliken, Jennifer. "The study of discourse in international relations: A critique of research and methods." European journal of international relations 5, no. 2 (1999): 225-254.
Schmidt, Vivien A. "Discursive institutionalism: The explanatory power of ideas and discourse." Annual review of political science 11 (2008).
Week of November 2: Fieldwork and Elite Interviews
de Volo, Lorraine Bayard, and Edward Schatz. "From the inside out: Ethnographic methods in political research." PS: Political Science & Politics 37, no. 2 (2004): 267-271.
Parkinson, Sarah Elizabeth. "Organizing rebellion: Rethinking high-risk mobilization and social networks in war." American Political Science Review 107, no. 3 (2013): 418-432.
Leech, Beth L. "Interview methods in political science." PS: political science & politics 35, no. 4 (2002): 663-664.
McEvoy, Joanne. "Elite interviewing in a divided society: Lessons from Northern Ireland." Politics 26, no. 3 (2006): 184-191.
Rincker, Meg E. "Masculinized or marginalized: Decentralization and women's status in regional Polish institutions." Journal of Women, Politics & Policy 30, no. 1 (2009): 46-69.
Week of November 9: Midterm Assignment
Week of November 16: IMPIS Requirements
Material on Moodle
Week of November 23: Who Are You?
Walt, Stephen M. "International relations: one world, many theories." Foreign policy (1998): 29-46.
“Introduction,” Roach, Steven C., Martin Griffiths, and Terry O'Callaghan. International relations: the key concepts. Routledge, 2014. (Electronic access through Google Scholar)
Week of November 30: Posing a Scholarly Question
Adam McCauley and Andrea Ruggeri, “Formulating Research Questions & Designing Research Projects in International Relations,” in Luigi Curini and Rob Franzese (eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations (Moodle)
Week of December 7: Literature Reviews: Purpose, Components, and Structure
C. Hart, Doing a Literature Review, chap 1 (scan, Moodle)
Knopf, Jeffrey W. "Doing a literature review." PS: Political Science & Politics 39, no. 1 (2006): 127-132.
HULTMAN, LISA, JACOB KATHMAN, and MEGAN SHANNON. "Beyond Keeping Peace: United Nations Effectiveness in the Midst of Fighting." The American Political Science Review 108, no. 4 (2014): 737-53
Blanchard, Eric M. "Gender, international relations, and the development of feminist security theory." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 28, no. 4 (2003): 1289-1312.
Week of December 14: Constructing an Argument to Answer Your Question
Gary Goertz and Jack Levy, Explaining War and Peace: Case Studies and Necessary Condition Counterfactuals (electronic through library)
Weeks December 21-January 4: Presentation of Initial Ideas for a Paper or Thesis
Who Are You?
Draft question
Ideas on why the question is important
Types of literature to review
Method (specifics)
Data Sources and Availability
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