Research Methods in International Relations

Christopher Lamont is Dean of E-Track’s International Relations program and Vice Dean of the Graduate School of International Relations at Tokyo International University in Japan. He holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Glasgow. He was also a Fulbright fellow at the University of Zagreb and an RCUK postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ulster. His research interests are at the intersection of global governance, technology, and international justice. He is the author of Research Methods in International Relations, now in its second edition, published by Sage. He is also co-editor (with Arnaud Kurze) of New Critical Spaces in Transitional Justice: Gender, Art, and Memory published by Indiana University Press in 2019, and Non-Western Visions of Democratization: Imagining Democracy after the Arab Spring (with Jan van der Harst and Frank Gaennsmantel), which was published by Routledge/Ashgate in 2015. His monograph, International Criminal Justice and the Politics of Compliance (Routledge/Ashgate 2010) explored the international and domestic politics of international criminal justice processes in the former Yugoslavia. In addition to his scholarly contributions, his writings have also featured in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and The Diplomat, among others.

Introduction
Chapter 1: Research Methods in International Relations
Chapter 2: Research Questions and Research Design
Chapter 3: Research Ethics
Chapter 4: Writing a Literature Review
Chapter 5: Qualitative Methods in International Relations
Chapter 6: Quantitative Methods in International Relations
Chapter 7: Mixed Methods in International Relations
Chapter 8: Case Study Research in International Relations
Chapter 9: Field Research in International Relations
Chapter 10: Writing Up Your Research