Social Science Research and International Relations

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Science and Social Research (CSSR)(Malaysia)

The discipline of international relations: still an American social science?

This article reviews the state of the discipline of international relations. It starts from statements made by the editors in their editorial published in the first issue of this journal. The editors noted that there seemed to have been less adherence to positivism in international relations than in other areas of political science and that there was both more opposition to positivism and more ...

Digital political science: Pixelizing international relations

Video games have the ability to be political products and their virtual nature gives them the freedom to reflect, interpret, and even redefine the political dynamics with which we engage on a daily basis at both personal and international levels. This paper will serve as an initial proposal to a research project that will seek to create a branch of Digital Political Science outlining a method f...

Measuring international relations in social media conversations

Aggregating Search Results for Social Science by Extracting and Organizing Research Concepts and Relations

A method was developed for automatically aggregating sets of research abstracts in sociology retrieved by an information retrieval (IR) system in response to a user query. The method focused on extracting and integrating research concepts, relationships, research methods and contextual information from different abstracts retrieved by the IR system, and organizing and displaying them in a Web i...