Drawing on numerous case studies and the expertise of some twenty researchers, this book provides a summary of the main key resources and methods adopted in international relations research, including using archives and databases, conducting interviews, establishing a corpus, analyzing quantitative data, producing nuanced interpretation of images. Read More
To study international relations is to study social facts: trying to describe, interpret and compare these facts inevitably means that the researcher has to choose methods and tools with which to do this. Whilst there are numerous works which approach international relations from a theoretical standpoint, paradoxically there are far fewer which address the various ways to approach empirical research.
This book includes contributions from twenty or so researchers and teachers and suggests a wide range of useful data, resources, and methods for undertaking methodologically rigorous research on international relations. It contains critical reflections on how to construct and make use of databases, how to conduct interviews, how to map results, how to analyse speech and images, and how to use various quantitative methods.
A practical handbook for researchers, this book will also be valuable to a wider audience which is interested in studies of international relations and wonders quite properly how 'experts' reach their conclusions.
Introduction
I. PHASE CRITIQUE
La crise sociale et environnementale est celle de la science économique dominante
Le double impensé de la pensée économique dominante
L'obsolescence du paradigme économique dominant
Contre-feux idéologiques et politiques
La pertinence du paradigme de la « science » économique : un jugement politique
L'économie comme représentation du monde
II.COMMENTCHANGER
Le commun et la propriété
En finir avec le crédit et la dette
Repenser l'échange : réciprocité et redistribution
Les « collectifs muets » : interlocuteurs négligés mais obligés
Pour conclure
Bibliographie