Resources and Applied Methods in International Relations
In: The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy
"Preface" -- "Contents" -- "List of Figures" -- "List of Table" -- "Part I: Preliminary Reflections Open for Discussion" -- "Chapter 1: Describing, Representing, Interpreting" -- "Description as a Phase of Research" -- "A Rich Tradition" -- "Description as Analysis" -- "Description as Practice" -- "Representation Through Artifacts" -- "Interpreting" -- "Explaining and Understanding" -- "Meticulous Interpretation" -- "Bibliography" -- "Chapter 2: Constructing Subjects and Comparison in International Relations Studies" -- "The Idiographic Approach and Its Limits" -- "Nomothetic Comparison" -- "The "Comparative" Method Contextualized" -- "Conclusion" -- "Bibliography" -- "Part II: Discussing Some Resources and How to Deal with Them" -- "Chapter 3: Consulting Foreign Affairs Archives in France and America" -- "French Archives" -- "American Archives" -- "Advice Regarding How to Deal with Diplomatic Documents" -- "Bibliography" -- "Chapter 4: Taking Images Seriously, How to Analyze Them?" -- "Constituting a Visual Documentary Corpus" -- "Identifying the Image Production Chain" -- "Letting Images "Speak for Themselves"" -- "Semiological and Aesthetic Methods" -- "The Cognitive Method" -- "The Iconographic Method" -- "Measuring How Images Are Circulated and Received" -- "Evaluating Spatial and Media Dissemination" -- "Describing How Images Are Received" -- "Conclusion" -- "Bibliography" -- "Chapter 5: Imagining and Representing the Spatial Aspect of Actors and Societies" -- "A Short History of the Social Uses of Cartography" -- "Knowledge and Ancient Points of Reference" -- "Medieval Beliefs" -- "Navigating and Territorializing" -- "Administrating" -- "Iconizing" -- "A Tool for Mobile Individuals" -- "Cartography and Social Sciences" -- "From Vidal to the Quantitativists" -- "Elsewhere in the Social Sciences