Global Studies Research is a research methods textbook designed for interdisciplinary International Studies majors and their faculty. The textbook introduces interdisciplinarity, provides basic building blocks of relevant disciplinary knowledge, explains a process for integrating knowledge from multiple disciplines, and models this interdisciplinary International Studies Research Process in its presentation of the case studies.

Interdisciplinary Global Studies

1914–1915

  • World War I begins
  • United States intervenes in Mexican Civil War
  • Ottoman Empire undertakes genocidal massacres against its Greek population
  • British ocean liner Lusitania sunk by German submarine, killing 1,198 passengers
  • First successful (non-direct) blood transfusion
  • Earthquake in Avezzano, Italy, kills 29,800
  • German-American Erich Muenter explodes bomb in U.S. Senate Reception Room to protest U.S. sales of weapons to UK and France during World War I; none killed
  • First transatlantic radiotelephone message from Virginia to Paris
  • 25,000 American women march in New York City for the right to vote
  • Typhoid Mary, a carrier of the disease, recaptured and quarantined to prevent further spread of disease in New York City

2014–2015

  • Death toll in Syrian Civil War reaches 130,000 with 4 million displaced
  • Russia intervenes in the Ukraine and annexes Crimea
  • Journalists investigate Myanmar’s genocidal ...
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