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International Relations

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Observational quantitative IR4 methodsGame-theoretic / formal IR3 methodsConflict event-data analysis2 methodsNetwork & graph analysis for IR2 methodsObservational quantitative conflict studies2 methodsPolitical psychology / at-a-distance leadership analysis2 methodsSurvival/duration models for conflict2 methodsDemocracy measurement1 methodEvent-data analysis of political violence1 methodForecasting / early warning for conflict1 methodForeign policy analysis / comparative design1 methodFormal / dynamical-systems IR1 methodFormal / game-theoretic IR1 methodGame-theoretic / decision-theoretic IR1 methodGame-theoretic / formal political economy of IR1 methodInformation extraction / NLP for political science1 methodInterpretive / critical IR methods1 methodIR measurement of state preferences1 methodNetwork & graph analysis for IR / international political economy1 methodNetwork similarity / IR measurement1 methodObservational analysis of economic statecraft1 methodObservational quantitative IR / conflict studies1 methodObservational quantitative IR / war studies1 methodPolitical measurement for conflict and development1 methodPolitical psychology / behavioral IR1 methodQualitative / case-based causal inference1 methodQualitative / text analysis for IR and international law1 methodRegime-type measurement1 methodSpatial / diffusion methods for conflict1 methodSpatial methods for conflict1 methodSupervised ML for conflict1 methodText-as-data for IR / foreign-policy analysis1 method
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