Seminar on Qualitative Research Strategies in IR Held at Shaninka

On April 20th at 14:00, a roundtable titled "Qualitative Research Methods in International Security: From Deconstruction to Discourse Network Analysis" was held at the "Vectors 2024" conference venue. The event was collaboratively organized by the Working Group on the Discursive Dimension of Russian Foreign Policy and the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences.

Experts from HSE and Shaninka discussed various approaches to qualitative research in international security, including discourse network analysis and deconstruction. They also explored the broader methodological, epistemological, and ontological issues related to critical theory in International Relations (IR). Roundtable participants and student researchers exchanged views on how these methods could be used to analyze the evolution of Russian foreign policy strategy and the 1991 and 2003 US invasions of Iraq.