STUDYING THE GLOBAL(IZING) DISCIPLINE

STRUTURE

• Why study the Global(izing) discipline?
• Interesting Research Questions
• How to answer them
• Some examples

WHY STUDY THE GLOBAL(IZING) DISCIPLINE?

INTERESTING RESEARCH QUESTIONS

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

• How are international topics approached in X?
• What theories are used in X?
• How are scholars from X represented in IR?
• What is the influence of X on practice X?
• How is knowledge produced and disseminated?

HOW TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS

Data sources

• On the published discipline:
• Journals

Example: Published discipline

METHODS

EXAMPLES

Two projects:

"Between Divides and Diversity" project at Freie Universität Berlin

"Global Pathways Program" at the College of William and Mary

EXAMPLES OF STUDENT PROJECTS

The "Peaceful Rise" Debate in Chinese and English language journals (Sabine Mokry)

Indigenousness in Australian IR (Julita Dudziak)

Periphery-Periphery Relations in IR Scholarship (Michael Campbell)

MY OWN WORK

Citations Patterns in Global Constructivist Work

The Diffusion and Translation of IR Theory

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