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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Statecraft and Diplomacy in a World Transformed: 1967–2017 -- 2. Southeast Asia: From Trust Deficit to Strategic Trust -- 3. ASEAN and the Region: From Cold War Pawn to ASEAN Centrality -- 4. From State-centric to People-centred ASEAN -- 5. ASEAN: Wither or Prosper? -- Appendix 1: Guidelines for the Implementation of the DOC -- Appendix 2: Declaration of the East Asia Summit on the Principles for Mutually Beneficial Relations -- Appendix 3: Statement of Asean Foreign Ministers on Asean's Six-Point Principles on the South China Sea -- Index -- About the Author

The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations offers a comprehensive overview of research processes in social science - from the ideation and design of research projects, through the construction of theoretical arguments, to conceptualization, measurement, & data collection, and quantitative & qualitative empirical analysis - exposited through 65 major new contributions from leading international methodologists. Each chapter surveys, builds upon, and extends the modern state of the art in its area. Following through its six-part organization, undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and practicing academics will be guided through the design, methods, and analysis of issues in Political Science and International Relations: Part One: Formulating Good Research Questions & Designing Good Research Projects. Part Two: Methods of Theoretical Argumentation. Part Three: Conceptualization & Measurement. Part Four: Large-Scale Data Collection & Representation Methods. Part Five: Quantitative-Empirical Methods. Part Six: Qualitative & "Mixed" Methods.

The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations offers a comprehensive overview of research processes in social science - from the ideation and design of research projects, through the construction of theoretical arguments, to conceptualization, measurement, & data collection, and quantitative & qualitative empirical analysis - exposited through 65 major new contributions from leading international methodologists. Each chapter surveys, builds upon, and extends the modern state of the art in its area. Following through its six-part organization, undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and practicing academics will be guided through the design, methods, and analysis of issues in Political Science and International Relations: Part One: Formulating Good Research Questions & Designing Good Research Projects. Part Two: Methods of Theoretical Argumentation. Part Three: Conceptualization & Measurement. Part Four: Large-Scale Data Collection & Representation Methods. Part Five: Quantitative-Empirical Methods. Part Six: Qualitative & "Mixed" Methods.

In this written version of his inaugural lecture for the Montague Burton chair in IR at the LSE, Iver Neumann takes stock of International Relations understood as a social science. Having paid homage to predecessors, in the first part of the lecture, he detects and regrets a certain unwillingness within the discipline to address the full universe of pertinent cases. Inspecting the toolbox of the discipline, he finds things to be satisfactory where data collection, theory and meta-theory are concerned, but traces a glaring lack of attention to data collection method among qualitative (as opposed to quantitative) scholars. In the lecture's second part, Neumann draws on Marcel Mauss's idea that human agency draws on a constellation of social, psychological and physiological sources and on Emile Durkheim's insistence that a social science has to privilege social sources of agency, without neglecting sources of other kinds. A nutshell review of relevant trends within psychology and evolutionary biology highlights work that competes with the discipline's own. While insisting, with Durkheim, on the need to privilege social causes, Neumann calls for more work that explores the possible compatibility of new findings within these non-social disciplines and International Relations.

An essential guide for Political Science educators at all stages in their career. This solid compendium offers a state of the discipline overview of teaching practices and challenges, providing a sound base for designing engaging active learning activities.

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