Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Military Studies

Herausgeber: Soeters, Joseph; Rietjens, Sebastiaan; Shields, Patricia M.

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume offers a comprehensive overview of research methods in the field of military studies, featuring essays by leading scholars from around the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 172mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 656g
• ISBN-13: 9781138200852
• ISBN-10: 1138200859
• Artikelnr.: 45553481

Autorenporträt

Joseph Soeters is Professor of Organization Studies at the Netherlands Defence Academy and Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He has published extensively in international academic journals and authored and (co-)edited several books. Patricia M. Shields is Professor of Political Science at Texas State University, USA. She has been the editor-in-chief of Armed Forces & Society , the leading journal in military studies, since 2001. She has published extensively on the military. Sebastiaan Rietjens is Associate Professor at the Netherlands Defence Academy, and a reserve major in the Netherlands army. He has done extensive fieldwork in military operations and has published in journals and books.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I - Getting started and seeing the context 1. Introduction: what makes
the military special? Editors 2. Getting access to the field:
insider/outsider perspectives, Eyal Ben-Ari and Yagil Levy 3. Getting on
the Same Net: How the Theory-driven Academic can Better Communicate with
the Pragmatic Military Client, Nicholas Jans 4. Chapter 4: Reflexivity:
Potentially "Dangerous Liaisons", Eyal Ben-Ari 5. Doing military research
in conflict environments, Björn Müller-Wille . Studying Host-Nationals in
Operational Areas: The Challenge of Afghanistan, William Maley Part II -
Qualitative Methods 7. Historical research in the military domain,
Floribert Baudet and Eric Sibul 8. Retrieving what's already there:
archival data for research in defense acquisition, Rene Rendon and Keith
Snider 9. Process tracing in case studies, Pascal Vennesson and Ina Wiesner
10. Being One of the Guys or the Fly on the Wall? Participant Observation
of Veteran Bikers, Rene Moelker 11. In-depth interviewing, Brenda Moore
12. Qualitative data-analysis: seeing the patterns in the fog of
Civil-Military Interaction, Sebastiaan Rietjens 13. Visual Communication
Research and War, Michael Griffin 14. Researching 'The most dangerous of
all sources': Egodocuments, Esmeralda Kleinreesink 15. Scrutinizing the
Internet in search of "homegrown" terrorism, Risa Brooks Part III -
Quantitative Studies 16. Survey Research in Military Settings, James
Griffith 17. Longitudinal Design in Using Surveys in Military Research:
Common Challenges and Techniques, Jing Han and Manon Andres 18. Multilevel
Analysis: The Examination of Hierarchical Data in Military Research, Irina
Goldenberg and Joseph Soeters 19. Cross national research in the military:
comparing operational styles, Chiara Ruffa and Joseph Soeters 20.
Experimental Methods in Military and Veteran Studies, Jeremy Teigen 21. The
empirical analysis of conflicts, using databases, Min Ye and Uk Heo 22.
Computational modeling to study conflicts and terrorism, Joseph Young and
Michael Findley 23. Evaluating Peace Operations: Challenges and Dimensions,
Daniel Druckman and Paul Diehl 24. Business Analytics Research in Military
Organizations, Jan-Bert Maas, Paul C. van Fenema and Jan-Kees Schakel Part
IV - The end 25. A New Approach to Doing Military Ethics, Celestino Perez
26. Theory Building in Research on the Military, Eyal Ben-Ari 27. Doing
Practical Research and Publishing in Military Studies, Patricia Shields and
Travis Whetsell