Research Methods in International Relations 3/e

Christopher Lamont is Dean of E-Track's International Relations program and Vice Dean of the Graduate School of International Relations at Tokyo International University in Japan. He holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Glasgow. He was also a Fulbright fellow at the University of Zagreb and an RCUK postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ulster. His research interests are at the intersection of global governance, technology, and international justice. He is the author of Research Methods in International Relations, now in its second edition, published by Sage. He is also co-editor (with Arnaud Kurze) of New Critical Spaces in Transitional Justice: Gender, Art, and Memory published by Indiana University Press in 2019, and Non-Western Visions of Democratization: Imagining Democracy after the Arab Spring (with Jan van der Harst and Frank Gaennsmantel), which was published by Routledge/Ashgate in 2015. His monograph, International Criminal Justice and the Politics of Compliance (Routledge/Ashgate 2010) explored the international and domestic politics of international criminal justice processes in the former Yugoslavia. In addition to his scholarly contributions, his writings have also featured in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and The Diplomat, among others.

Chapter 1 Methodology and Philosophy of Science Chapter 2 Getting Started: Your Literature Review Chapter 3 Research Ethics Chapter 4 Research Questions and Research Design Chapter 5 Case Study Research in International Relations Chapter 6 How to Collect Data Chapter 7 Interview, Focus Group, and Survey Research Chapter 8 Decoument, Text, and Digital archives Chapter 9 How To Analyze Data Chapter 10 Statistical Analysis Chapter 11 Mixed Methods Research Chapter 12 Discourse and Content Analysis Chapter 13 Writing Up