Agent-based Modeling

Abstract

This book on qualitative methods fills a significant gap in the international relations methods literature by avoiding the attempt to create or reify orthodoxy around a particular set of methodological tools. The book also addresses a second problem with the methods literature: the lack of serious discussion of the multiple methods of qualitative analysis, including a comparison of their kind of scholarship or knowledge production. Of course, given the goals and title of this book, one has to ask, Who let in the formal modeler?