4
WRITING A LITERATURE
REVIEW
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Organizing your Literature
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Chapter Summary
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5
QUALITATIVE METHODS
IN INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS
“The nox tee chaps wil os hee sae, oF ex af ol for data
collection ad dats anaes Chapeee 5 will examine Qualeative Metods.
‘Quanttaive Methods wil be advened in Chapter 62nd Mined Method io
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‘Quantttve method advaning theoretical cis on power plc iter
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cos wins min, we an ow fr to guste reser metho in
Ttematonal Relations Quatre mesods hae Ben deployed within a ros
‘ody af sholaship tha spans fom empl explanatory ste of aor
lion that came wo ate sce postion wi IR shes i he
19805 klor, 1985; Rose ea 1999) 1 ther more nerptetve ie hat
tet on focal mening and how te soil wold constiated or podced
{Camp 1998). Ts chapter wl explore quae meds used in both