Required reading PECOS 4020
Adcock, Robert and David Collier, 2001. “Measurement validity: A Shared Standard for Qualitative and Quantitative Research”, American Political Science Review 95, pp. 529-546.
Carr, E.C., 1961. What is History? London: Penguin, pp. 7-30
Dessler, David, 1991. “Beyond Correlations: Toward a Causal Theory of War”, International Studies Quarterly vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 119-154.
Elster, Jon, 1989. Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 3-41 and 91-134.
Gaddis, John Lewis. 1986. “The Long Peace: Elements of Stability in the Postwar International System”, International Security vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 99-142
George, Alexander and Andrew Bennett, 2005. Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT press, part 1 and 2.
Ghersetti, Marina, 2004. “A Question of Partisanship? Swedish Radio on September 11”, in Nohrstedt, Stig A. and Rune Ottosen (eds.). U.S and the Others: Global Media Images on ”The War on Terror”. Gøteborg University: NORDICOM, pp. 203-221.
Green, Linda, 1995. “Living in a state of fear”, in Carolyn Nordstrom and Antonius C.G.M. Robben (eds.). Fiedwork under fire: Contemporary studies of violence and survival. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp.105-128.
Hegre, Håvard. 2005. Interpretation of parameter estimates.Oslo: International Peace Research Institute. 10 pages. Will be distributed during the lectures.
Hinkle, Dennis E.; William Wiersma & Stephen G. Jurs, 2003. Applied Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, 5th. edition, Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin. (Selected parts).
Hodder, Ian, 2003. “The Interpretation of Documents and Material Culture”, in Denzin, Norman K. and Yvonna S. Lincoln (eds.). Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials. 2nd. Edition. London: Sage Publishers, pp. 155-175.
Hoyle, Rick H., Monica Harris and Charles M. Judd, 2002. Research Methods in Social Relations. 7th. Edition. Thomson Learning, Inc. pp. 3-44, 75-95.
King, Gary, Robert Keohane and Sidney Verba, 1994. Designing Social Inquiry. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 3-33, 208-230.
Lebow, Richard Ned, 2000. “Social Science, History, and the Cold War: Pushing the Conceptual Envelope” in Odd Arne Westad (ed.) Reviewing the Cold War: Approaches, Interpretations, Theory. London and Portland: Frank Cass, pp. 103-125.
Melve, Leidulv, 2002. “Review”, Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 249-252.
Muller, Edward & Erich Weede,1990. “Cross-National Variation in Political Violence: A Rational Action Approach”, Journal of Conflict Resolution 34(4): 624–651.
McCullagh, C. Behan, 2004. The Logic of History: Putting Postmodernism in Perspective. London and New York: Routledge, pp.18-42 and 170-192.
Ragin, Charles C., 1987. The Comparative Method. Berkely: University of California Press, pp. 1-68.
Rubin, Herbert J and Irene S. Rubin. Qualitative Interviewing: The Art of Hearing Data. Thousand Oaks, London, New Dehli: Sage Publications, pp. 42-92, 196-256.
Russett, Bruce M., John R. Oneal and Michaelene Cox, 2000. “Clash of Civilizations, or Realism and Liberalism Déjà Vu? Some Evidence”, Journal of Peace Research, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 583-608.
Salehyan, Idean and Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, 2006. “Refugees and the Spread of Civil War”, International Organization 60 (Spring), pp. 335-366.
Silverman, David, 2003. “Analyzing Talk and Text”, in Denzin, Norman K. and Yvonna S. Lincoln (eds.). Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials. 2nd. Edition. London: Sage Publishers, pp.340-362.
Simons, Anna, 1995. “The Beginning of the End”, in Carolyn Nordstrom and Antonius C.G.M. Robben (eds.). Fiedwork under fire: Contemporary studies of violence and survival. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 42-62.
Van Evera, Stephen, 1994. “Hypotheses on Nationalism and War”, International Security vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 5-39.
Waage, Hilde Henriksen, 2003. Peacebuilding is a Risky Business: Norway’s Role in the Peace Process in the Middle East, 1993-96. PRIO Report 1/2004. Oslo: PRIO, pp. 1-11
Wohlforth, William C., 2000. “A Certain Idea of Science: How International Relations Theory Avoids Reviewing the Cold War” in Odd Arne Westad (ed.). Reviewing the Cold War: Approaches, Interpretations, Theory. London and Portland: Frank Cass, pp. 126-145.