Research Methods in Defence Studies
This textbook provides an overview of qualitive and quantitative methods used in different social sciences to investigate defence issues.
Recently, defence 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 defence 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 defence 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 defence topics and to fully grasp the complexity of defence 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.
Delphine Deschaux-Dutard is an Associate Professor in Political Science at the University Grenoble Alpes, France. She is also a researcher at CESICE and Vice-Dean for International Relations at the Faculty of law at the same institution.
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Names: Deschaux-Dutard, Delphine, editor.
Title: Research methods in defence studies : a multidisciplinary overview / edited by Delphine Deschaux-Dutard.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, [2020] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020006852 (print) | LCCN 2020006853 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367187859 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367187866 (paperback) | ISBN 9780429198236 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Military policy--Study and teaching. | Military research--Methodology. | Sociology, Military--Methodology.
Classification: LCC UA11 .R47 2020 (print) | LCC UA11 (ebook) | DDC 355.0072/1--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020006852
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020006853
ISBN: 978-0-367-18785-9 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-367-18786-6 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-0-429-19823-6 (ebk)
I want to dedicate this volume to my students: they are the ones who keep alive my wish to mix rigorous analysis and didactical methods. May this volume be of help for anyone interested in investigating defence issues.
Heiko Biehl is head of the research unit on military sociology at the Bundeswehr Centre for Military History and Social Sciences in Potsdam, Germany. He is a guest lecturer at the University of Potsdam. His main research fields are military sociology and political sociology.
Florian Bller is Junior Professor of International Relations at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. His research interests include US foreign policy, NATO, and executivelegislative relations.
Laurent Borzillo holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Montpellier and from the University of Montreal (cotutelle de thse / international double doctoral degree). His research focuses on military cooperations in Europe and specifically on FrenchGerman military cooperation through binational military units since the 1990s. His recent publications deal with German defence policy.
Amal Cattaruzza holds a PhD in geography from University Paris IV-Sorbonne and is a professor at University Paris 8. He is a geographer and associate researcher at the Military academy Saint-Cyr Coetquidan. He has worked on the Balkans geopolitics, and, more generally, on the mutation of contemporary conflicts. For the past ten years he has also been studying the geopolitics of cyberspace (in particular, through the notions of sovereignty, cyberwar and cybersecurity).
Flemming Juul Christiansen is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University, Denmark. He is a legislative studies expert with a focus on parties and parliaments.
Fabrizio Coticchia is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Genova, Italy. His research fields are foreign policy analysis, strategic culture, and contemporary military operations. His latest book, published together with J.W. Davidson, is Italian Foreign Policy during Matteo Renzi's Government (Lexington Books, 2019).
Delphine Deschaux-Dutard is an associate professor in political science at the University Grenoble Alpes (France). She holds a PhD from Sciences Po Grenoble (2008) dedicated to the role of French and German diplomatic and military actors in European Defence Policy and more precisely in CSDP since the 1990s. She spent two research stays in the Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut des Bundeswehr and at the Centre March Bloch in 2006 and 2007 and. Her current research interests focus on CSDP, French-German military cooperation, parliamentary control of the use of military force in France and Germany, and lately cybersecurity and cyber defence in the EU. She teaches international relations and political science in Grenoble and Paris (ILERI, Ecole de Guerre), and is supervisor of an online masters program on International Security and Defence. Her latest publications deal with methods in the study of the military, NATO and CSDP military operations, emerging powers, cybersecurity strategy of the EU and international security. She is also the former treasurer of the French Association pour les Etudes sur la Guerre et la Stratgie (AEGES; guerre-strategie.com).
Daan Fonck obtained his PhD at the Leuven International and European Studies Institute of KU Leuven, Belgium. His research focuses on parliamentary behaviour in foreign policy. He is currently a government advisor for EU and international affairs.
Anna Herranz-Surralls is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Maastricht Universitys Department of Political Science, the Netherlands. Her research deals with EU external energy policy and global energy governance, focusing on the relationship between energy, security and democracy.
