Routledge handbook of research methods in military studies
The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Military Studies offers a comprehensive and dynamic overview of these developments as they emerge in the many approaches to military studies. The chapters in this Handbook are divided over four parts: starting research, qualitative methods, quantitative...
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Oxon, UK New York, NY
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2014
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Getting access to the field: Insider/outsider perspectives
- 3. Getting on the same net: How the theory-driven academic can better communicate with the pragmatic military client
- 4. Reflexivity: Potentially "dangerous liaisons"
- 5. Doing military research in conflict environments
- 6. Studying host-nationals in operational areas: The challenge of Afghanistan
- 7. Historical research in the military domain
- 8. Retrieving what's already there: Archival data for research in defense acquisition
- 9. Process tracing in case studies
- 10. Being one of the guys or the fly on the wall? Participant observation of veteran bikers
- 11. In-depth interviewing
- 12. Qualitative data analysis: Seeing the patterns in the fog of civil-military interaction
- 13. Visual communication research and war
- 14. Researching 'the most dangerous of all sources': Egodocuments
- 15. Scrutinizing the Internet in search of "homegrown" terrorism
- 16. Survey research in military settings
- 17. Longitudinal design in using surveys in military research: Common challenges and techniques
- 18. Multilevel analysis: The examination of hierarchical data in military research
- 19. Cross-national research in the military: Comparing operational styles
- 20. Experimental methods in military and veteran studies
- 21. The empirical analysis of conflicts, using databases
- 22. Computational modeling to study conflicts and terrorism
- 23. Evaluating peace operations: Challenges and dimensions
- 24. Business analytics research in military organizations
- 25. A new approach to doing military ethics
- 26. Theory building in research on the military
- 27. Doing practical research and publishing in military studies