Co-Word Text Analysis Applied To Political Science

A system of text analysis by co-occurrence of key words, Calliope, is applied to the 2006 data set of daily headlines and titles of media reports on international political and "parapolitical" events produced by the journal, Intelligence. These political (publicly avowed use of political power) and parapolitical (unavowed use of policital power) developments are divided into three successive four-month periods, each producing a two-dimensional "strategic digram" with a centrality and a density axis. Graphs over time of "emerging" and "declining" key words are also produced. These results permit an original and intriguing analysis and interpretation of these 2006 events.