ABSTRACT
Discourse analysis has become an increasingly popular way in which scholars conduct research, both in international political sociology specifically and across the social sciences generally. If we understand international political sociology as presented by Guillaume and Bilgin in the introduction to this volume as “at its core … a pragmatic research attitude to specific problématiques by mobilizing … these three dimensions that are the international, the political and the sociological”, then discourse analysis is central to an international political sociology methodology. This is because the connections between these three dimensions are constructed through discourses. Indeed, the three dimensions – the international, the political and the sociological – are themselves defined and delineated within discourse.
