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9780190846381: Comparative Area Studies: Methodological Rationales and Cross-Regional Applications
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ISBN 10 : 0190846380 ISBN 13 : 9780190846381
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2018

Synopsis

In the post-World War II era, the emergence of 'area studies' marked a signal development in the social sciences. As the social sciences evolved methodologically, however, many dismissed area studies as favoring narrow description over general theory. Still, area studies continues to plays a key, if unacknowledged, role in bringing new data, new theories, and valuable policy-relevant insights to social sciences. In Comparative Area Studies, three leading figures in the field have gathered an international group of scholars in a volume that promises to be a landmark in a resurgent field. The book upholds two basic convictions: that intensive regional research remains indispensable to the social sciences and that this research needs to employ comparative referents from other regions to demonstrate its broader relevance. Comparative Area Studies (CAS) combines the context-specific insights from traditional area studies and the logic of cross- and inter-regional empirical research. This first book devoted to CAS explores methodological rationales and illustrative applications showing how area-based expertise can link into cutting-edge comparative analytical frameworks.

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À propos de l?auteur

Ariel I. Ahram is associate professor of government and international affairs in Virginia Tech's School of Public and International Affairs.

Patrick Köllner is vice president of the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), director of the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies, and professor of political science at the University of Hamburg, Germany.

Rudra Sil is professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania where he is also SAS Director of the Huntsman Program in International Studies & Business.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0190846380
ISBN 13 
9780190846381
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
320
Éditeur
Ahram Ariel I., Köllner Patrick, Sil Rudra
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0190846372 ISBN 13 :  9780190846374
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2018
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