We still lack practical answers to one of the most basic questions in empirical research: How should researchers interpret meanings? The contributors take seriously the goals of both post-modernist and positivist researchers, as they offer detailed guidance on how to apply specific tools of analysis and how to circumvent their inherent limitations.
Audie Klotz is Associate Professor at Syracuse University.
Deepa Prakash is a PhD candidate in Political Science at Syracuse University. Her research interests are in critical security studies, the discourse on ‘terrorism,’ and the identities of non-state actors, with a focus on South Asia.
Brooke Ackerly is Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University.
Samuel Barkin is Associate Professor at the University of Florida. He has published on a wide range of topics in international relations, including international political economy, institutions, environmental politics, and theory.
Jeffrey T Checkel is Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo and Adjunct Research Professor at the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo.
Gavan Duffy is Associate Professor at Syracuse University, where he investigates political conflict and conducts formal and computational linguistic analyses of strategic political interactions.
Kevin C Dunn is Associate Professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, working at the intersection of international relations and African politics.
Hugh Gusterson is Professor of Cultural Studies at George Mason University.
Margaret G Hermann is Gerald B and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs and Director of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. She is a widely published expert on comparative foreign policy, political leadership, and political psychology.
Matthew J Hoffmann is Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. His research interests include global environmental governance, social constructivism, complexity theory, and agent-based modeling.
Anna Leander is Associate Professor in the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management at the Copenhagen Business School. She works on issues of private authority in international relations, focusing on the use of force.
Iver B Neumann is Professor of Russian Studies at Oslo University and Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.
Jerrold M Post is Professor in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University.
