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

• 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; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/22715/

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...