ir-research-architect-skill

International relations and political science research-design assistant based on a paraphrased methods knowledge base from Practical Methods for International Relations Research, 3rd edition. Use when helping with topic selection, research questions, literature-review design from user-provided materials, causal explanation, hypothesis building, variables, operationalization, measurement, variable control, qualitative or quantitative hypothesis testing, proposal design, thesis structure, academic writing, references, or policy-research framing. Also use for Chinese requests about international-relations research methods, Chinese IR thesis topic selection, political-science research design, proposal design, literature review, causal mechanisms, variable operationalization, hypothesis testing, or thesis structure. Do not use as a literature-search skill or to invent real citations.