[Interpretationandmethods] Non-variables-based security studies

[Navdeep Mathur]

Here are some refs on the topic.

Haas, P.M. and Haas, E.B. (2002) 'Pragmatic constructivism and the study 
of international institutions'.
/Millennium /31(3): 573-602.
 

Hopf, T. (1998) 'The promise of constructivism in international 
relations theory'/./

/International Security / 23(1): 171-200,
 

Checkel, J. (1998) 'The constructivist turn in IR theory'.

/World Politics / 50(2): 324-48.

Checkel, J.T (2004) 'Social constructivisms in global and European 
polities'.

/Review of International Studies /30(3): 229-44.


Best,  Navdeep

Dvora Yanow wrote:

> Colleagues,
>
> I am wondering if any of you (Patrick, Cecelia, Claire, Ido, others?) 
> might help with a question that has come up.
>
> I am looking for sources that would help support an argument on behalf 
> of a non-variables approach to an issue in security studies.  
> Specifically, the research in question is based on 12 interviews, 
> selected via purposive "sampling" (I would prefer to use the term 
> exposure).  Reviewers are asking for clarification of the dependent 
> and indep. variables, as well as about "selection bias" because of the 
> small sample size.
>
> Peri and I take up the matter of interpretive research as 
> non-variables-based research in various intro. sections of 
> Interpretation and Method, as well as in chs. 4 and 5; and other 
> chapters provide examples.
>
> But I'm wondering:  can someone point me to works in security studies 
> itself, or perhaps in IR or Comparative Government more broadly, that 
> would help advance/support a non-variables argument?
>
> Cecelia, I don't have your book at hand -- do you and Audie engage 
> this question there?  If so, can you point me to the ch. or pages?
>
> Dvora Yanow
>
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