The disintegration and questioning of global governance structures and a re-orientation toward national politics combined with the spread of technological innovations such as big data, social media, and phenomena like fake news, populism, or questions of global health policies make it necessary for the introduction of new methods of inquiry and the adaptation of established methods in Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA). This accessible handbook offers concise chapters from expert international contributors covering a diverse range of new and established FPA methods. Embracing methodological pluralism and a belief in the value of an open discussion about methods’ assumptions and diverging positions, it provides new, state-of-the-art research approaches, as well as introductions to a range of established methods. Each chapter follows the same approach, introducing the method and its development, discussing strengths, requirements, limitations, and potential pitfalls while illustrating the method’s application using examples from empirical research. Embracing methodological pluralism and problem-oriented research that engages with real-world questions, the authors examine quantitative and qualitative traditions, rationalist and interpretivist perspectives, as well as different substantive backgrounds. The book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars and students in global politics, foreign policy, and methods-related classes across the social sciences.
Chapters 4, 25 and 32 of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Author(s): Patrick A. Mello, Falk Ostermann
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 602
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Foreword: The Conduct of Inquiry in Foreign Policy Analysis
Acknowledgments
PART I: Introduction
1 Methods of Foreign Policy Analysis Charting Ground, Engaging Traditions, and Opening Up Boundaries
PART II: Perspectives on Foreign Policy
2 Ideas and Identity from Rationalism to Theories of Recognition
3 Ethnography
4 Norms and Norm Contestation
5 Feminism
6 Political Geography
PART III: Language and Interpretive Methods
7 Discourse Analysis and Discourse Theories
8 Narrative Analysis
9 Frame Analysis
10 Visual Analysis
11 Emotion Discourse Analysis
PART IV: Psychology, Roles, and Leaders
12 Role Theory
13 The Political Psychology of Threat Assessment
14 Measuring Perceptions Combining Low and High Inference Approaches to Data Analysis in International Political Communication
15 Leadership Trait Analysis
16 Operational Code Analysis
17 Groupthink, Polythink, and Con-Div Identifying Group Decision-Making Dynamics
PART V: Quantitative and Comparative Approaches
18 Comparative Foreign Policy
19 Quantitative Content Analysis
20 Statistical Analysis
21 Experimental Methods
22 Game Theory
23 Public Opinion Surveys
24 Qualitative Comparative Analysis
PART VI: Qualitative Methods and Historical Approaches
25 Process Tracing: An Analyticist Approach
26 Interviews
27 Historical Analysis
28 Oral History
29 Archival Research
Part VII: New Technology, Social Media, and Networks
30 Big Data Analysis
31 Analyzing Twitter
32 Discourse Network Analysis
33 Text as Data
34 Conflict Event Data
Index
