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Book SynopsisMethodologies for the study of International organizations
Trade ReviewThis book is original and innovative, as it is the first companion to provide a broad and thoughtful inventory of research methods used in the social sciences and humanities to understand what international organizations are and what they do: so very helpful!" - Bob Reinalda, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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International Organizations and Research Methods fills a gaping hole in the IO literature and will be particularly valuable to graduate students and IO researchers with its diversity of methods and authors covering a range of UN specialized agencies and IOs in different issue areas and regions. The book's introduction provides a very useful overview of what the book aims to do and not do and how the editors define methods as a reflexive part of the research process. The innovative use of boxes is a great way to present specific tools and ‘tricks,’ including interviewing in a foreign language and analyzing tweets." - Margaret Karns, University of Massachusetts Boston
Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION. Rethinking Methods of Investigation and International Organizations
- Fanny Badache, Leah R. Kimber and Lucile Maertens
- PART 1. OBSERVING
- Introduction: Observing
- Fanny Badache, Leah R. Kimber and Lucile Maertens
- Chapter 1. Direct Observation
- Kari De Pryck and Svenja Rauch
- Box a. Observing Spatial Practices
- Fiona McConnell
- Box b. Digital Observation
- MÉlanie Albaret
- Chapter 2. Participant Observation
- Leah R. Kimber and Lucile Maertens
- Box c. Multipositionality
- Simon Tordjman
- Box d. Carnal Sociology
- Julie Patarin-Jossec
- Box e. Exiting Fieldwork
- FrÉdÉric MÉrand
- Chapter 3. Ethnographic Interviews
- Leah R. Kimber and Emilie Dairon
- Box f. Reversed Photo-Elicitation
- Leah R. Kimber
- Interlude I. Frictions of Distance and Proximity. Observing IOs in Action
- Birgit MÜller
- PART 2. INTERVIEWING
- Introduction: Interviewing
- Fanny Badache, Leah R. Kimber and Lucile Maertens
- Chapter 4. Surveys
- Clara Egger and Monique J. Beerli
- Box g. Languages and Interviews
- James Worrall
- Box h. Focus Groups
- Marie Saiget
- Chapter 5. Semi-Structured Interviews
- MÉlanie Albaret and Joan Deas
- Box i. Interviewing “Beneficiaries”
- Lucie Laplace
- Box j. Asymetrical interviews
- Emilie Dairon
- Chapter 6. Biographic Interviews
- Monique J. Beerli
- Box k. Online Interviews
- Leah R. Kimber
- Interlude II. Controversies in Interview Research
- Annabelle Littoz-Monnet
- PART 3. DOCUMENTING
- Introduction: Documenting
- Fanny Badache, Leah R. Kimber and Lucile Maertens
- Chapter 7. Legal Research
- Ian Hurd
- Chapter 8. Archives
- Ellen J. Ravndal
- Box l. Visual Archives
- ValÉrie Gorin
- Chapter 9. Visual Methods
- ValÉrie Gorin
- Box m. Analyzing Maps
- BenoÎt Martin
- Box n. Branding Analysis
- Stefan Tschauko
- Box o. Artifact Analysis
- Julian Eckl
- Chapter 10. Document Analysis: a praxiographic approach
- Christian Bueger
- Box p. Semiology of Websites
- Camille Rondot
- Box q. Analyzing Tweets
- Matthias Hofferberth
- Chapter 11. Discourse Analysis
- Audrey Alejandro, Marion Laurence and Lucile Maertens
- Box r. Studying Ideas
- Olivier Nay
- Chapter 12. Statistics and Quantification
- Roser CussÓ and Laure Piguet
- Box s. Analyzing Charts, Infographics and Dataviz
- BenoÎt Martin
- Chapter 13. Budget Analysis
- Svanhildur Thorvaldsdottir and Ronny Patz
- Interlude III. What IOs Talk about When They Talk about Themselves, and How They Do It
- Davide Rodogno
- PART 4. MEASURING
- Introduction: Measuring
- Fanny Badache, Leah R. Kimber and Lucile Maertens
- Chapter 14. Voting Analysis
- Erik Voeten
- Chapter 15. Statistical Analyses with IO Data
- Fabien Cottier and Heidrun Bohnet
- Box t. Navigating Human Resource Statistics
- Fanny Badache
- Chapter 16. Large-N Data and Quantitative Analyses
- Charles B. Roger
- Chapter 17. Computerized Text Analysis
- Mor Mitrani and Inbar Noy
- Chapter 18. Multiple Correspondence Analysis
- Constantin Brissaud
- Box u. Building Databases on Individuals
- Kseniya Oksamytna
- Chapter 19. Social Network Analysis
- Anna-Luise ChanÉ
- Interlude IV. Challenging IOs through Numbers
- Simon Hug
- PART 5. COMBINING
- Introduction: Combining
- Fanny Badache, Leah R. Kimber and Lucile Maertens
- Chapter 20. Interviews and Observations
- Kari De Pryck
- Box v. Challenging Secrecy
- Olivier Schmitt
- Chapter 21. Observation, Interviews and Archives
- Marieke Louis
- Chapter 22. Computational Text Analysis and Archival Methods
- Evan Easton-Calabria and William Allen
- Chapter 23. Qualitative Comparative Analysis
- Ryan Federo
- Chapter 24. Structured, Focused Comparison
- Vytautas Jankauskas, Steffen Eckhard and JÖrn Ege
- Chapter 25. Process Tracing
- Svenja Rauch
- Chapter 26. Prosopography
- Aykiz Dogan and FrÉdÉric Lebaron
- Box w. Research with LinkedIn
- Monique J. Beerli
- Chapter 27. Practice Analysis
- Vincent Pouliot
- Chapter 28. Feminist Approaches
- Georgina Holmes
- Box x. Postcolonial Insights
- Soumita Basu
- Box y. Reflexivity in Practice
- Audrey Alejandro
- Chapter 29. Composing Collages: Working at the Edge of Disciplinary Boundaries
- Anna Leander
- Box z. Expeditions as a Research Method
- Doaa Abdel-Motaal
- Interlude V. Controversies on Methodological Pluralism
- J. Samuel Barkin
