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Research methodology in geopolitics: application of qualitative content analysis in studying the geopolitical codes case: the role of the Persian Gulf's oil in the Iraq war

This paper attempts to analyze geopolitical codes using qualitative content analysis. Analyzing such codes helps to reveal the political elite's geopolitical assumptions, which form a state's foreign policy. This paper explains how the relationship between events and geopolitical codes cou...

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Main Authors: Naji, Saeid, Jawan, Jayum, Redzuan, Ma'rof
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Addleton Academic Publishers 2011
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/22715/1/Research%20methodology%20in%20geopolitics.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.227152015-12-16T04:42:43Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/22715/ Research methodology in geopolitics: application of qualitative content analysis in studying the geopolitical codes case: the role of the Persian Gulf's oil in the Iraq war Naji, Saeid Jawan, Jayum Redzuan, Ma'rof This paper attempts to analyze geopolitical codes using qualitative content analysis. Analyzing such codes helps to reveal the political elite's geopolitical assumptions, which form a state's foreign policy. This paper explains how the relationship between events and geopolitical codes could be interpreted by using qualitative content analysis method. It shows that this technique is researcher centric and how effective it is depends on the ability and skill of the researcher. A qualitative content analysis is also important because, for analyzing geopolitical codes, the researcher needs to analyze and interpret presidential speeches and governmental documents as critical data. In this paper a case study is used to explain the process of analysis, including different stages of this technique. Addleton Academic Publishers 2011 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/22715/1/Research%20methodology%20in%20geopolitics.pdf Naji, Saeid and Jawan, Jayum and Redzuan, Ma'rof (2011) Research methodology in geopolitics: application of qualitative content analysis in studying the geopolitical codes case: the role of the Persian Gulf's oil in the Iraq war. Geopolitics, History, and International Relations, 3 (2). pp. 208-222. ISSN 1948-9145; ESSN: 2374-4383
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description This paper attempts to analyze geopolitical codes using qualitative content analysis. Analyzing such codes helps to reveal the political elite's geopolitical assumptions, which form a state's foreign policy. This paper explains how the relationship between events and geopolitical codes could be interpreted by using qualitative content analysis method. It shows that this technique is researcher centric and how effective it is depends on the ability and skill of the researcher. A qualitative content analysis is also important because, for analyzing geopolitical codes, the researcher needs to analyze and interpret presidential speeches and governmental documents as critical data. In this paper a case study is used to explain the process of analysis, including different stages of this technique.
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author Naji, Saeid
Jawan, Jayum
Redzuan, Ma'rof
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Jawan, Jayum
Redzuan, Ma'rof
Research methodology in geopolitics: application of qualitative content analysis in studying the geopolitical codes case: the role of the Persian Gulf's oil in the Iraq war
author_facet Naji, Saeid
Jawan, Jayum
Redzuan, Ma'rof
author_sort Naji, Saeid
title Research methodology in geopolitics: application of qualitative content analysis in studying the geopolitical codes case: the role of the Persian Gulf's oil in the Iraq war
title_short Research methodology in geopolitics: application of qualitative content analysis in studying the geopolitical codes case: the role of the Persian Gulf's oil in the Iraq war
title_full Research methodology in geopolitics: application of qualitative content analysis in studying the geopolitical codes case: the role of the Persian Gulf's oil in the Iraq war
title_fullStr Research methodology in geopolitics: application of qualitative content analysis in studying the geopolitical codes case: the role of the Persian Gulf's oil in the Iraq war
title_full_unstemmed Research methodology in geopolitics: application of qualitative content analysis in studying the geopolitical codes case: the role of the Persian Gulf's oil in the Iraq war
title_sort research methodology in geopolitics: application of qualitative content analysis in studying the geopolitical codes case: the role of the persian gulf's oil in the iraq war
publisher Addleton Academic Publishers
publishDate 2011
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/22715/1/Research%20methodology%20in%20geopolitics.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/22715/
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