1. Introduction
2. The Naturalist Philosophy of Science
3. The Experimental Method
4. The Statistical Method
5. The Comparative Method
6. History, Interviews and Case Studies
7. Sowing Doubts about the Naturalist Methodology
8. A Constructivist Philosophy of Science
9. From Story Telling to Telling Histories
10. Comparing Contexts
11. Contextualizing Statistics
12. Interpretive Experiments
13. Conclusion.
JONATHON W. MOSES Professor of Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
TORBJØRN L. KNUTSEN Professor of International Relations, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and Adjunct Professor, The Norwegian Air Force Academy, Trondheim, Norway.