The digital transformation is turning archives, both old and new, into data. As a
consequence, automation in the form of artificial intelligence techniques is increasingly …

Scholarship on elites and foreign policy has made important advances in identifying who
elites are, what elites want, and how elites influence foreign policy. This review assesses …

Analyzing conflicts and political violence around the world is a persistent challenge in the
political science and policy communities due in large part to the vast volumes of specialized …

Data science is the foundation of our modern world. It underlies applications used by billions
of people every day, providing new tools, forms of entertainment, economic growth, and …

Practice theorists favor interviews and participant observations in their study. Using insights
from anthropological works on bureaucratic texts, in this article we develop methodological …

Archives have long been a key concern of academic debates about truth, memory, recording
and power and are important sites for social sciences and humanities research. This has …

There are a number of challenges that arise when working with historical data. On one hand,
scholars often find themselves with too much archival data to read, code, or compile into …

Computational diplomacy, the application of digital and computational methods to the study
and practice of international negotiations, presents unique challenges compared to most …

How should political scientists navigate the ethical and methodological quandaries
associated with analyzing leaked classified documents and other nonconsensually acquired …

Most archives were established before the digital age, where hardcopies of much smaller
volumes were archived. In the information age, archives struggle to accommodate the large …