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International Relations

42 methods
32 method families

MOST CONNECTED IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Militarized Interstate Dispute Analysis
11 connections in this field
Dyadic Conflict Analysis
8 connections in this field
Democratic Peace Analysis
7 connections in this field
Power Transition Analysis
7 connections in this field
Alliance Network Analysis
6 connections in this field
Bargaining Model of War
6 connections in this field
Event Data Analysis of Conflict
6 connections in this field
Expected Utility Model of War
6 connections in this field
UCDP Conflict Data Analysis
6 connections in this field
Spatial Conflict Analysis
5 connections in this field

Showing 42 of 42 methods

Observational quantitative IR4 methods
Democratic Peace AnalysisDyadic Conflict AnalysisEnduring Rivalry AnalysisTerritorial Conflict Analysis
Game-theoretic / formal IR3 methods
Audience Cost AnalysisBargaining Model of WarCrisis Bargaining Game
Conflict event-data analysis2 methods
ACLED Event AnalysisUCDP Conflict Data Analysis
Network & graph analysis for IR2 methods
Alliance Network AnalysisIGO Network Analysis
Observational quantitative conflict studies2 methods
Civil War Onset AnalysisCorrelates of War Analysis
Political psychology / at-a-distance leadership analysis2 methods
Leadership Trait AnalysisOperational Code Analysis
Survival/duration models for conflict2 methods
Conflict Recurrence AnalysisPeace Duration Analysis
Democracy measurement1 method
V-Dem Democracy Measurement
Event-data analysis of political violence1 method
Global Terrorism Database Analysis
Forecasting / early warning for conflict1 method
Conflict Forecasting
Foreign policy analysis / comparative design1 method
Comparative Foreign Policy Analysis
Formal / dynamical-systems IR1 method
Richardson Arms Race Model
Formal / game-theoretic IR1 method
Deterrence Modeling
Game-theoretic / decision-theoretic IR1 method
Expected Utility Model of War
Game-theoretic / formal political economy of IR1 method
Selectorate Theory Analysis
Information extraction / NLP for political science1 method
Event Data Analysis of Conflict
Interpretive / critical IR methods1 method
Discourse Analysis of Foreign Policy
IR measurement of state preferences1 method
Foreign Policy Similarity Score
Network & graph analysis for IR / international political economy1 method
Trade Network Analysis
Network similarity / IR measurement1 method
Alliance Portfolio Similarity
Observational analysis of economic statecraft1 method
Sanctions Effectiveness Analysis
Observational quantitative IR / conflict studies1 method
Militarized Interstate Dispute Analysis
Observational quantitative IR / war studies1 method
Power Transition Analysis
Political measurement for conflict and development1 method
State Capacity Measurement
Political psychology / behavioral IR1 method
Prospect Theory in International Relations
Qualitative / case-based causal inference1 method
Counterfactual Analysis
Qualitative / text analysis for IR and international law1 method
Content Analysis of Treaties
Regime-type measurement1 method
Polity Score Analysis
Spatial / diffusion methods for conflict1 method
Conflict Diffusion Analysis
Spatial methods for conflict1 method
Spatial Conflict Analysis
Supervised ML for conflict1 method
Machine Learning Conflict Prediction
Text-as-data for IR / foreign-policy analysis1 method
Content Analysis of Political Speeches

FIELD AT A GLANCE

Methods42
Method families32
Connected methods10+

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