Syllabus and Class Schedule

Day #1: Monday, 26 May (Blindern, ESH 830)

Session 1 (0900 - 1200): Qualitative Methods (I) – Case

Studies and Process Tracing

Bringing Case Studies Back In

Sambanis, Nicholas, "Using Case Studies to Expand Economic Models of Civil War," Perspectives on Politics 2/2 (2004): 257-79.

Case Studies – The Set Up

Gerring, John, Case Study Research: Principles and Practices (NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007), chapters 1-4, 7.

"Symposium: John Gerring, Case Study Research: Principles and Practices (Cambridge, 2007)," Qualitative Methods: Newsletter of the American Political Science Association Organized Section for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research 5/2 (2007): 2-15.

Case Studies – The Methodological Tools

Hall, Peter, "Aligning Ontology and Methodology in Comparative Politics," in James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Editors, Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), chapter 11.

Bennett, Andrew and Alexander George, Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005), chapter 10.

Checkel, Jeffrey T., "Process Tracing," in Audie Klotz, Editor, Qualitative Methods in International Relations: A Pluralist Guide (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

Session 2 (1315 – 1600): Qualitative Methods (II) – Textual and Discourse Analysis

"Symposium: Discourse and Content Analysis," Qualitative Methods: Newsletter of the American Political Science Association Organized Section on Qualitative Methods 2/1 (2004): 15-39.

Milliken, Jennifer, "The Study of Discourse in International Relations: A Critique of Research and Methods," European Journal of International Relations 5 (June 1999): 225-54.

Hansen, Lene, Security as Practice: Discourse Analysis and the Bosnian War (London: Routledge, 2006), chapters 1-5.

Application

Doty, Roxanne Lynn, "Foreign Policy as Social Construction: A Post-Positivist Analysis of US Counterinsurgency Policy in the Philippines," International Studies Quarterly 37 (1993): 297-320.

Day #2: Tuesday, 27 May (PRIO, Peace Room)

(With the participation of Professor Elisabeth Wood of Yale University)

Wood, Elisabeth Jean, "Field Research," in Carles Boix and Susan Stokes, Editors, The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), chapter 5.

Laitin, David, "Appendix: Research Methodology," in Laitin, Hegemony and Culture: Politics and Religious Change among the Yoruba (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986), pp.185-205.

Wood, Elisabeth Jean, "The Ethical Challenges of Field Research in Conflict Zones," Qualitative Sociology 29 (2006): 373-86.

"Symposium: Field Research – How Rich? How Thick? How Participatory?" Qualitative Methods: Newsletter of the American Political Science Association Organized Section on Qualitative Methods 4/2 (2006): 9-24.

Session 4 (1315 – 1600): Qualitative Methods (IV) – Mixing Methods

Lieberman, Evan, "Nested Analysis as a Mixed-Method Strategy for Comparative Research," American Political Science Review 99/3 (2005): 435-452.

"Symposium: Multi-Method Work, Dispatches from the Front Lines," Qualitative Methods: Newsletter of the American Political Science Association Organized Section on Qualitative Methods 5/1 (2007): 9-27.

"Symposium: Bridging the Gap? Connecting Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in the Study of Civil War," Qualitative Methods: Newsletter of the American Political Science Association Organized Section for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (Forthcoming in 2008).

Hopf, Ted, Social Construction of International Politics: Identities and Foreign Policies, Moscow, 1955 and 1999 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002), chapter 1.

Day #3: Wednesday, 28 May (PRIO, Peace Room)

(With the participation of Professor Elisabeth Wood of Yale University)

Wood, Elisabeth Jean, Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), chapters 1-2, 7-8, Appendix.

Session 6 (1315 – 1615): Civil War (II) - Kalyvas

Kalyvas, Stathis, The Logic of Violence in Civil War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), Introduction, chapters 4-5, 8-9.

Day #4: Thursday, 29 May (Blindern, ESH 830)

Weinstein, Jeremy, Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence (NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007), Introduction, chapters 1, 4-5, 9.

Session 8 (1315 - 1600): The Challenges Ahead for Civil War Studies (I) – Taking Mechanisms Seriously

Tarrow, Sidney, "Inside Insurgencies: Politics and Violence in an Age of Civil War (Book Review Essay)," Perspectives on Politics 5/3 (2007): 587-600.

Elster, Jon, "A Plea for Mechanisms," in Peter Hedstrøm and Richard Swedberg, Editors, Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), chapter 3.

Mahoney, James, "Beyond Correlational Analysis: Recent Innovations in Theory and Method," Sociological Forum 16/3 (2001): 575-93.

Johnson, James, "Consequences of Positivism: A Pragmatist Assessment," Comparative Political Studies 39 (2006): 224-52.

McAdam, Doug, Sidney Tarrow and Charles Tilly, "Methods for Measuring Mechanisms of Contention," Qualitative Sociology (Forthcoming in 2008).

(With the participation of Professor Scott Gates, Centre for the Study of Civil War, PRIO)

Adler, Emanuel, "Constructivism and International Relations," in Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse and Beth Simmons, Editors, Handbook of International Relations (London: Sage Publications, 2002), chapter 5.

Fearon, James and Alexander Wendt, "Rationalism v. Constructivism: A Skeptical View," in Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse and Beth Simmons, Editors, Handbook of International Relations (London: Sage Publications, 2002), chapter 3.

Kalyvas, Stathis, "Ethnic Defection in Civil War," Comparative Political Studies (Forthcoming in 2008).

Lake, David, "Building Legitimate States after Civil Wars: Order, Authority and International Trusteeship," Paper presented at the Centre for the Study of Civil War Brown Bag Seminar, International Peace Research Institute Oslo (October 2007).

Blattman, Christopher, "The Causes of Child Soldiering: Theory and Evidence from Northern Uganda." Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Chicago, IL (March 2007).