TRIP Workshop

I spent the morning and early afternoon at a workshop on the state of IR, run by the William and Mary folks who run the TRIP project.  Over the past decade, these folks have collected a bunch of data surveying IR profs and collecting information from the articles published in IR journals.  They are now seeking new eyes on the dataset, so a bunch of us have met to use the data and talk about it.  The papers today were most interesting, so I am repeating the live-tweets I sent out earlier today. *

* We finished early so that we could go hiking and be social, but the torrential rains meant Star Trek instead.  I don't yet have an IR angle on the movie, but may have something eventually.

Big challenge of making data public is that people can backtrack the survey data to figure out individual respondents #TRIPworkshop
— Stephen Saideman (@smsaideman) May 23, 2013

Replicability, transparency are issues for #TRIPdata, but journals do make exceptions for privacy, proprietary data #TRIPworkshop
— Stephen Saideman (@smsaideman) May 23, 2013

Fragmentation of IR is not new as old stocktaking exercises show #TRIPworkshop
— Stephen Saideman (@smsaideman) May 23, 2013

Is fragmentation of IR scholarship a bad thing? #TRIPworkshop
— Stephen Saideman (@smsaideman) May 23, 2013

We tend to compare IR to Econ, but in terms of fragmentation, compare to sub field of Comparative Politics #TRIPworkshop
— Stephen Saideman (@smsaideman) May 23, 2013

David Lake does a great job of explaining how the relative gains-absolute gains bubble popped #TRIPworkshop 1/2
— Stephen Saideman (@smsaideman) May 23, 2013

Brian Rathbun: paradigms are like drugs, gambling and other sins--ok only for adults, in moderation #TRIPworkshop
— Stephen Saideman (@smsaideman) May 23, 2013

Brian Rathbun never fails to entertain #TRIPworkshop
— Stephen Saideman (@smsaideman) May 23, 2013

Love the next slides: paradigm wars vs discursive community with Star Wars and Community pics #TRIPworkshop
— Stephen Saideman (@smsaideman) May 23, 2013

Network cite paper: constructivists take others seriously but others don't take constructivists seriously #TRIPworkshop
— Stephen Saideman (@smsaideman) May 23, 2013

Network paper: engagement among paradigms limited to cross cutting research topics #TRIPworkshop
— Stephen Saideman (@smsaideman) May 23, 2013

Last from network paper: liberals are the hegemony #TRIPworkshop
— Stephen Saideman (@smsaideman) May 23, 2013

Liberal dominance might be due to democratic peace debate dominating citation lit #TRIPworkshop
— Stephen Saideman (@smsaideman) May 23, 2013

My question: topic focused citation bubbles might be warping outcomes (dem peace, political capital, etc). And bubbles pop #TRIPworkshop
— Stephen Saideman (@smsaideman) May 23, 2013