Abstract

This article discusses the current situation of research methodology training for international relations (IR) graduate students in China. Since the country’s opening up, research methods training in IR has gradually advanced in universities. We administered a survey to postgraduate IR students in China about their training in research methodologies. The results reveal that IR methodology training in China is still not satisfactory at most schools and varies across universities. Although most of the students did not know much about quantitative research methods, they are beginning to demand more training in this area. This is reflected in both the curriculum design at universities and our survey results. Thus, improvements in teaching IR research methods at Chinese universities are needed, especially improvements that focus on quantitative methods and formal modeling.

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