A Pilot Study of Quantifying Turkey's Foreign Affairs: Data Generation, Challenges, and Preliminary Analysis

Musa TÜZÜNER, (Dış Politika ve Barış Araştırmaları Merkezi, Ankara, Türkiye)
Gonca BİLTEKİN (Bilkent Üniversitesi, Ankara, Türkiye)
All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace
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Yıl: 2013 Cilt: 2 Sayı: 2 Sayfa Aralığı: 47 - 70 Metin Dili: İngilizce İndeks Tarihi: 29-07-2022

A Pilot Study of Quantifying Turkey's Foreign Affairs: Data Generation, Challenges, and Preliminary Analysis

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This paper provides a simple introduction to event data analysis, a quantitative data collection and analysis approach that has been used extensively for compiling broad datasets of foreign policy and other international behaviors. The authors define the steps undertaken in creating the Turkish Foreign Affairs Event Dataset (TFAED). This pilot study, which uses a single news source and covers a 23-year period (1990-2013) of foreign affairs in Turkey, was completed to evaluate the feasibility, time, cost, and possible problems that might be encountered with a full-scope study. The paper describes the obstacles encountered during the pilot study s initial phases and discusses a sample of the preliminary findings. The paper concludes with potential uses of the dataset.
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