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This contribution develops process tracing (PT) as a method for Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA). It explains what it takes to conduct PT, trace a mechanism, and draw conclusions on that basis. Importantly, I lay out an analyticist approach to PT that is amendable to more actor-centered and interpretivist studies. This approach treats mechanisms as akin to Weberian ideal types: abstract constructs that are adduced from multiple concrete, contextually embedded, and largely idiosyncratic instantiations. This creates space for agency and contingency and allows us to a) study how a mechanism or concatenation of mechanisms led to a particular outcome; b) assess how the mechanism(s) functioned in a given context; and c) abstract from the specific instantiation(s) more general propositions about foreign policy making. In an empirical example of state employment of Private Military and Security Contractors, drawing on interpretivist and narrative-based understandings of FPA, I illustrate what this means in practice.

Kausale Mechanismen und Process Tracing stehen im Zentrum der Methodendiskussion in der Politikwissenschaft. Die beiden Begriffe werden jedoch häufig nur als Schlagworte verwendet. Dieses Buch zeigt, wie Politikforschung mittels Process Tracing systematisch angelegt und wie politische Prozesse mittels kausaler Mechanismen im Detail besser verstanden und erklärt werden können. Es beleuchtet Geschichte und theoretische Grundlagen des Konzepts der kausalen Mechanismen und stellt eine Weiterentwicklung zu einer Theorie kausaler Mechanismen vor. Darüber hinaus wird erläutert, wie in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Literatur bereits identifizierte Mechanismen zur Erklärung politischer Entwicklungen genutzt werden können. Ein Leitfaden zur Vorgehensweise mittels Process Tracing bietet abschließend eine Hilfe zur eigenständigen Analyse politischer Prozesse durch Forscher_innen und Studierende.

Kausale Mechanismen und Process Tracing stehen im Zentrum der Methodendiskussion in der Politikwissenschaft. Die beiden Begriffe werden jedoch häufig nur als Schlagworte verwendet. Dieses Buch zeigt, wie Politikforschung mittels Process Tracing systematisch angelegt und wie politische Prozesse mittels kausaler Mechanismen im Detail besser verstanden und erklärt werden können. Es beleuchtet Geschichte und theoretische Grundlagen des Konzepts der kausalen Mechanismen und stellt eine Weiterentwicklung zu einer Theorie kausaler Mechanismen vor. Darüber hinaus wird erläutert, wie in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Literatur bereits identifizierte Mechanismen zur Erklärung politischer Entwicklungen genutzt werden können. Ein Leitfaden zur Vorgehensweise mittels Process Tracing bietet abschließend eine Hilfe zur eigenständigen Analyse politischer Prozesse durch Forscher_innen und Studierende. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Kausale Mechanismen und Process Tracing stehen im Zentrum der Methodendiskussion in der Politikwissenschaft. Die beiden Begriffe werden jedoch häufig nur als Schlagworte verwendet. Dieses Buch zeigt, wie Politikforschung mittels Process Tracing systematisch angelegt und wie politische Prozesse mittels kausaler Mechanismen im Detail besser verstanden und erklärt werden können. Es beleuchtet Geschichte und theoretische Grundlagen des Konzepts der kausalen Mechanismen und stellt eine Weiterentwicklung zu einer Theorie kausaler Mechanismen vor. Darüber hinaus wird erläutert, wie in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Literatur bereits identifizierte Mechanismen zur Erklärung politischer Entwicklungen genutzt werden können. Ein Leitfaden zur Vorgehensweise mittels Process Tracing bietet abschließend eine Hilfe zur eigenständigen Analyse politischer Prozesse durch Forscher_innen und Studierende. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Advances in qualitative methods and recent developments in the philosophy of science have led to an emphasis on explanation via reference to causal mechanisms. This book argues that the method known as process tracing is particularly well suited to developing and assessing theories about such mechanisms. The editors begin by establishing a philosophical basis for process tracing - one that captures mainstream uses while simultaneously being open to applications by interpretive scholars. Equally important, they go on to establish best practices for individual process-tracing accounts - how micro to go, when to start (and stop), and how to deal with the problem of equifinality. The contributors then explore the application of process tracing across a range of subfields and theories in political science. This is an applied methods book which seeks to shrink the gap between the broad assertion that 'process tracing is good' and the precise claim 'this is an instance of good process tracing'

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This thesis examines urban partition in Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, and how its changing roles and shifting perceptions in a post-conflict setting reflect power relations, and their constant renegotiation. Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, was officially divided in 1974 in the aftermath of an eighteen-year-long conflict between the island's Turkish- and Greek-Cypriot communities. As a result, a heavily militarized Buffer Zone, established as an emergency measure against perpetuation of intercommunal violence, has been cutting through its historic centre ever since. This thesis departs from a genuine interest in the material and ideational dimensions of urban partition. How is it constructed, not merely in physical terms but in the minds of the societies affected by conflict? How is it established in official and everyday discourses? What kinds of mechanisms have been developed to maintain it, and make an inseparable part of the urban experience? Moreover, taking into account the consensus in relevant literature pertaining to the imperative for its removal, this thesis is inquiring into the relevance of peace agreements to overcoming urban partition. For this purpose, it also looks at narratives and practices that have attempted to contest it. The examples examined in this thesis offer pregnant analytical moments to understand Nicosia's Buffer Zone as a dynamic social construct, accommodating multiple visions of and for the city. Its space 'in-between' facilitates encounters between various actors, accommodates new meanings, socio-spatial practices and diverse imaginaries. In this sense, urban partition is explored in this thesis as a phenomenon that transcends scales as well as temporalities, entwining past, present, and future.

This thesis examines urban partition in Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, and how its changing roles and shifting perceptions in a post-conflict setting reflect power relations, and their constant renegotiation. Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, was officially divided in 1974 in the aftermath of an eighteen-year-long conflict between the island's Turkish- and Greek-Cypriot communities. As a result, a heavily militarized Buffer Zone, established as an emergency measure against perpetuation of intercommunal violence, has been cutting through its historic centre ever since. This thesis departs from a genuine interest in the material and ideational dimensions of urban partition. How is it constructed, not merely in physical terms but in the minds of the societies affected by conflict? How is it established in official and everyday discourses? What kinds of mechanisms have been developed to maintain it, and make an inseparable part of the urban experience? Moreover, taking into account the consensus in relevant literature pertaining to the imperative for its removal, this thesis is inquiring into the relevance of peace agreements to overcoming urban partition. For this purpose, it also looks at narratives and practices that have attempted to contest it. The examples examined in this thesis offer pregnant analytical moments to understand Nicosia's Buffer Zone as a dynamic social construct, accommodating multiple visions of and for the city. Its space 'in-between' facilitates encounters between various actors, accommodates new meanings, socio-spatial practices and diverse imaginaries. In this sense, urban partition is explored in this thesis as a phenomenon that transcends scales as well as temporalities, entwining past, present, and future.