Patrick A. Mello is Assistant Professor of International Security at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His most recent book is Qualitative Comparative Analysis: An Introduction to Research Design and Application (Georgetown University Press, 2021) and he has published, among other journals, in the European Journal of International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis, and the European Political Science Review.

Falk Ostermann is Lecturer at Kiel University. He studies the domestic contestation of foreign policy with a focus on military interventions. He is the author of Security, Defense Discourse and Identity in NATO and Europe. How France Changed Foreign Policy (Routledge, 2019) and of Die NATO (UVK/UTB, 2020). He has published, among others, in the European Political Science Review, Foreign Policy Analysis, or West European Politics.

Part I: Introduction 1. Methods of Foreign Policy Analysis: Charting Ground, Engaging Traditions, and Opening Up Boundaries Part II: Perspectives on Foreign Policy 2. Ideas, Identity, and Recognition: "Vision of Itself" in Foreign Policy Analysis 3. Ethnography Iver B. Neumann 4. Norms and Norm Contestation 5. Feminism 6. Political Geography Part III: Language and Interpretive Methods 7. Discourse Analysis and Discourse Theory 8. Narrative Analysis 9. Frame Analysis 10. Visual Analysis 11. Emotion Discourse Analysis Part IV: Psychology, Roles, and Leaders 12. Role Theory 13. The Political Psychology of Threat Assessment 14. Measuring Perceptions: Combining Low and High Inference Approaches to Data Analysis 15. Leadership Trait Analysis 16. Operational Code Analysis 17. Groupthink, Polythink, and Con-Div: Identifying Group Decision-Making Dynamics Part V: Quantitative and Comparative Approaches 18. Comparative Foreign Policy 19. Quantitative Content Analysis 20. Statistical Analysis 21. Experimental Methods 22. Game Theory 23. Public Opinion Surveys 24. Qualitative Comparative Analysis Part VI: Qualitative Methods and Historical Approaches 25. Process Tracing: An Analyticist Approach 26. Interviews 27. Historical Analysis 28. Oral History 29. Archival Research Part VII: New Technology, Social Media, and Networks 30. Big Data Analysis 31. Analyzing Twitter 32. Discourse Network Analysis 33. Text as Data 34. Conflict Event Data