Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/103654 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
GIGA Working Papers No. 256
Publisher: 
German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg
Abstract: 
In recent decades, there has been significant debate about the representation of the various world regions in international relations research. This paper contributes to the debate by providing the results of a survey of 290 research articles published over the last decade in three leading disciplinary journals. The survey shows that non-Western cases are indeed underrepresented in the research. However, an analysis of the research articles according to their research topics, objectives, and methodology finds no explanation for this underrepresentation. I argue in this paper that the inclusion of non-Western cases is important to secure the validity of international relations research. "Representative crossregional comparison," which is based on comparative area studies approaches, is presented as a research design that addresses this issue.
Subjects: 
comparative area studies
non-Western theories
international relations (IR)
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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