Christopher Lamont is Dean of E-Track’s International Relations program and Vice Dean of the Graduate School of International Relations at Tokyo International University in Japan. He holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Glasgow. He was also a Fulbright fellow at the University of Zagreb and an RCUK postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ulster. His research interests are at the intersection of global governance, technology, and international justice. He is the author of Research Methods in International Relations, now in its second edition, published by Sage. He is also co-editor (with Arnaud Kurze) of New Critical Spaces in Transitional Justice: Gender, Art, and Memory published by Indiana University Press in 2019, and Non-Western Visions of Democratization: Imagining Democracy after the Arab Spring (with Jan van der Harst and Frank Gaennsmantel), which was published by Routledge/Ashgate in 2015. His monograph, International Criminal Justice and the Politics of Compliance (Routledge/Ashgate 2010) explored the international and domestic politics of international criminal justice processes in the former Yugoslavia. In addition to his scholarly contributions, his writings have also featured in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and The Diplomat, among others.

• Chapter 1 Methodology and Philosophy of ScienceChapter 2 Getting Started: Your Literature ReviewChapter 3 Research EthicsChapter 4 Research Questions and Research DesignChapter 5 Case Study Research in International RelationsChapter 6 How to Collect DataChapter 7 Interview, Focus Group, and Survey ResearchChapter 8 Decoument, Text, and Digital archivesChapter 9 How To Analyze DataChapter 10 Statistical AnalysisChapter 11 Mixed Methods ResearchChapter 12 Discourse and Content AnalysisChapter 13 Writing Up