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Through accounts from innovative research projects by world-leading political scientists, this volume offers a unique perspective on research methodology. It discusses the practical and intellectual dilemmas researchers face throughout the research process in a wide range of fields from implicit attitude testing to media analysis and interviews. Jessica Bain, University of Leicester, UK Michael Bruter, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Nathalia Chaban, University of Canterbury, Christchuch, New Zealand Robert Erikson, Columbia University, USA Mark Franklin, European University Institute Julie Gervais, University Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne, France Sarah Harrison, LSE, USA Will Jennings, University of Southampton, UK Martin Lodge, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Milton Lodge, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA Maya Renko, European University Institute Aaron Strauss, Princeton University, USA Brad Verhulst, Virgina Commonwealth University, USA Ben Wellings, Australian National University ?

The article examines the U.S. and Canadian Arctic Science Diplomacy (ASD) in a comparative perspective. The authors have identified the main reasons – scientific and geopolitical – for the use of the ASD in the region by these two countries, as well as by key state and non-state actors involved in its coordination and implementation. The ASD priorities for both countries include climate change implications, environmental problems, oceanography, geophysics, glaciology, permafrost, Arctic flora and fauna, conservation of biodiversity, Arctic shipping and transport infrastructure, rational use of Arctic mineral and biological resources, local communities, indigenous peoples, integration of traditional knowledge into science, and so on. Based on the analysis, it was found that both the USA and Canada recognize the important role of the Arctic Science Diplomacy in the successful implementation of their Arctic strategy and consider this kind of "non-traditional" public diplomacy to be a rather significant resource of their policy in the Far North. The Canadian ASD has to a greater extent an internal rather than an external orientation, while the U.S. ASD basically serves as an instrument of promotion of American national interests in the region. However, the United States pay less attention to the Arctic Science Diplomacy than Canada. The American ASD infrastructure (including the research centers and polar stations network as well as the research vessel fleet) is less developed than the Canadian one. In addition, in the U.S. strategic documents on the Arctic, unlike Canadian strategies, the coercive component is most clearly traced, which makes the United States a less attractive international partner and imposes certain restrictions on the participation of American ASD actors in Arctic cooperation. Moreover, the United States is very suspicious of the ASD of those regional "players" whom they have listed as unfriendly states (including Russia and China), which also serves as an obstacle to the development of Washington's scientific cooperation with international partners in the Far North.

International relations is a vibrant field of significant growth and change. This book guides students through the complexities of the major theories of international relations and the debates that surround them, the core theoretical concepts, and the key contemporary issues. Introduced by an overview of the discipline's development and general structure, the more than 40 entries are broken down as follows: Parts two introduces the key theories and each chapter includes: A broad overview. " a discussion of methodologies. " a review of empricial applications. " a guide to further reading and u

"In State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary, William Walters calls for secrecy to be given a more central place in critical security studies and elevated to become a core concept when theorizing power in liberal democracies. Through investigations into such themes as the mobility of cryptographic secrets, the power of public inquiries, the connection between secrecy and place-making, and the aesthetics of secrecy within immigration enforcement, Walters challenges commonplace understandings of the covert and develops new concepts, methods, and themes for secrecy and security research. Walters identifies the covert imaginary as both a limit on our ability to think politics differently, and a ground to develop a richer understanding of power"--

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contributors -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION: Experimenting: a two-person game between man and nature / Laponce, J. A. -- I. EXPERIMENTS AND POLITICAL THEORY -- The contribution of experiments within the framework of political theory / Deutsch, Karl W. -- II. PRE-DAT A AND POST-DAT A EXPERIMENTS -- International tension as a function of reduced communication / Cappello, Hector M. -- The use of visual space to measure ideology / Laponce, J. A. -- Policy-making in American cities: comparisons in a quasi-longitudinal, quasi-experimental design / Eulau, Heinz -- Experiments in self-government: the Polish case / Wiatr, Jerzy J. -- III. SOCIAL AND PAPER GAMES -- The strategies of negotiation: an American-Japanese comparison / Mushakoji, Kinhide -- Rational behaviour in politics: evidence from a three-person game / Riker, William H. / Zavoina, William James -- Social skills and intercultural communication in politics / Argyle, Michael / Collett, Peter -- IV. COMPUTER SIMULATIONS -- From causal modelling to artificial intelligence: the evolution of a UN peace-making simulation / Alker, Hayward R. / Christenen, Cheryl -- Political coalitions and political behaviour: a simulation model / Cornblit, Oscar -- An event-based simulation of the Taiwan Straits crises / Pelowski, Allan L. -- Markov processes in international crises: an analytical addendum to an event-based simulation of the Taiwan Straits crises / Leavitt, Michael R. -- V. MAN AND MAN/ COMPUTER SIMULATIONS -- Image and reality in simulated international systems / Ruge, Mari Holmboe -- International processes simulation: a description / Smoker, Paul -- VI. EXPERIMENTATION, SIMULATION, AND SOCIAL CHANGE -- A planned change in organizational style: underlying theory and some results / Golembiewski, Robert T. -- Methodology for social planning: simulation and experimentation processes for participatory social development / Vertinsky, Ilan -- VII. SUBJECTS AND RESEARCHERS: RIGHTS AND DUTIES -- Ethical considerations and research procedures / Lanphier, C . Michael -- Index

The Balkan region has traditionally been of particular importance for Russia, and currently Serbia remains one of the few European countries potentially exposed, due to ideological affinity, to the influence of Russia's soft power. Memory policy is an important tool in creating and maintaining this affinity because it enables formulation of unifying historical narratives and shared vision of the key events in the common history, thereby providing underpinning for assessments of current developments and for creating an image of the desired future. However, it has its limits and boundaries, and this paper aims at assessing the strength of the Russian-Serbian mnemonic union. The research builds on the concept of 'mnemonic diplomacy', which refers to a set of techniques and methods for the affirmation, coordination and dissemination of certain historical narratives designed to support the state's foreign policy activities. The author argues that the Russian-Serbian memory alliance is based primarily on common assessments of the events of World War II. The paper examines the key stages, internal and external drivers of this mnemonic union development, as well as identifies contradictions and conflicts inherent to this process. The author emphasizes that within the framework of the Russian-Serbian memory alliance both parties have always pursued their own goals. For instance, Serbia sought to use it to increase its weight in the Balkan and, more broadly, European politics, as well as to strengthen relations with its traditional geopolitical ally. For Russia, this mnemonic alliance acquired particular significance when the country's leaders set a course for transforming the post-Cold War world order. However, it was exactly this new turn of Russia's foreign policy whose most visible manifestation was the launch of the special military operation in Ukraine that dramatically complicated Serbia's position, including that in the field of memory politics. At the same time it has revealed the limits of the Russian-Serbian mnemonic union. The author concludes that the effectiveness of mnemonic diplomacy and, more broadly, the very possibility of forming and maintaining mnemonic alliances, ultimately depend on a combination of objective factors, including close economic ties and mutual geopolitical interest. Pushed outside this comfort zone, complementary historical narratives built solely on the appeal to the common heritage quickly lose their power of attraction.