Research

Introduction

My research agenda investigates how particular concepts, policies, entities, and practices emerged and persisted in world politics. I utilize a range of methods, including documentary analysis of primary source and archival materials and ethnographic field noting.

Currently, I am working on:

Other projects include: analysis of US foreign policy statements across two Administrations (2007-2009), the identity description of recipient countries at the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the incidence of "women" in US diplomatic cables, the concept of the international, and some reflection on teaching in study abroad programs.

Please feel free to contact me (here or here) regarding any of these research interests. I am always happy to speak with students and fellow researchers.


Publications

(all peer-reviewed, unless noted; email me to request a copy for teaching/research purposes)

Rancatore, Jason P. (2022) “Problems in Food Security Data Collection Practices with an illustration from northern Ghana,” International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food 28(1): 59–72 [pdf]

Rancatore, Jason P. (2015) "Talking Food in Bolgatanga," World Policy Journal 32(3): 47-53 [non-peer reviewed; abstract via Duke University Press]

Rancatore, Jason P. (2015) "New Multilateralism in the Early 21st Century," in Oxford Bibliographies in International Relations. Ed. Patrick James. New York: Oxford University Press [excerpt via OUP]

Rancatore, Jason P. (2010) "It is Strange: A Reply to Vrasti," Millennium 39(1): 65-77 [not for citation manuscript here; abstract via SAGE]

Rancatore, Jason P. (2009) "Using 'Pace' in Diplomatic Analysis," Hague Journal of Diplomacy 4(3): 283-305 [abstract, pdf]


Working papers/notes

Rancatore, Jason P. (2018) “The Operation of an Informal Market: Bolgatanga’s Goat Market.” SocArXiv. doi: 10.31235/osf.io/xr78w [abstract]


Other

Rancatore, Jason P. (2020) "Is Twitter an Effective Tool for International News and Data Points?" Self-study Report.

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Looking back at the surrounding circumstances, it may now seem that the answer of Washington to Paris... was an obvious one... a natural and logical answer to the French proposal... but it was none the less an answer then requiring in high degree both imagination and ability for its conception. (Miller 1928)