The use of indicators in the study of contemporary international political phenomena

Abstract

The relative importance of the statistical method (indicators) has grown between scientific research methods in the field of political science in general and international relations in particular, at the global level, as an effective and inevitable response to the challenge of controlling the growing discovery of the dynamics of structure and complexity in human phenomena in general and the phenomena of contemporary international relations in particular, given the emergence of topics and new actors from non-states. The relationship that links indicators as tools for measuring and arranging countries with the phenomena of contemporary international relations is based on alleviating this complexity, by contributing to building perceptions and convictions according to statistical analysis, as these indicators are supposed to help decision makers and specialists in building early warning policies. As the results of those uses of indicators are based on assumptions and judgments, which makes users of them sometimes reach the point of misleading inference, or the arbitrary and false link between the data of a phenomenon and its results, according to their vision of international relations and influenced by the donors of funds.