The debate over qualitative, quantitative and mixed approaches is vibrant in the social sciences. Yet, Arab voices have been absent from the debate.
It pays off to come down from the “sage on stage” position and show that your work is not perfect by having students tear apart your own old projects.
Professor J. Ann Tickner discusses the vibrancy of contemporary feminist IR, the divide between positivism and postpositivism and the need for IR from the margins.
Until practitioners begin to define precisely what an ES research programme would look like, the School’s impact on international theory remains outside the mainstream.
Professor King discusses the decline of International Studies, the growth of quantitative methods in IR, and the issue of presenting research findings to wider audiences.
Max Abrahms defends his proposition that terrorism is a losing tactic, reflects on the varying motives behind terrorism, and suggests an approach for countering ISIS.
Music and music-making can enhance a body of work that looks to de-reify received analytical categories of the discipline and thereby continue to enrich its key debates.
To think through collage is to invent and apply conceptual frames and create juxtapositions that disrupt and render historically contingent accepted knowledge practices.
A player-based approach unveils actual experiences of videogames offering a creative and grounded approach to a fuller understanding of pop culture in world politics.
Methodologically, a constructive encounter with videogames relies on reflection on narrative, visual and aural elements, and gameplay.
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