Research methods in defence studies : a multidisciplinary overview /
This textbook provides an overview of qualitative and quantitative methods used in different social sciences to investigate defense issues. Recently, defense issues have become of increasing interest to researchers in the social sciences, but they raise specific methodological questions. This volume...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2021.
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| Summary: | This textbook provides an overview of qualitative and quantitative methods used in different social sciences to investigate defense issues. Recently, defense issues have become of increasing interest to researchers in the social sciences, but they raise specific methodological questions. This volume intends to fill a gap in the literature on defense studies by addressing a number of topics not dealt with sufficiently before. The contributors offer a range of methodological reflections and tools from various social sciences (political science, sociology, geography, history, economics and public law) for researching defense issues. They also address the increasingly important question of data and digitalization. The book introduces the added value of quantitative and qualitative methods, and calls for a cross-fertilization of methods in order to facilitate better research on defense topics and to fully grasp the complexity of defensce in the 21st century. This book will be of much interest to students, researchers and practitioners of defence studies, war studies, military studies and social science research methods in general. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780367187859 036718785X 9780367187866 0367187868 |