Advancing Comparative Area Studies (eBook, PDF)

Analytical Heterogeneity and Organizational Challenges
Redaktion: Ahram, Ariel I.; Sil, Rudra; Köllner, Patrick

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Produktbeschreibung

The book Comparative Area Studies (2018) laid out the distinctive features and value-added of "comparative area studies" (CAS) against the backdrop of ongoing methodological debates in the social sciences. Since that time, the editors of the first volume and other scholars doing comparative research have been exploring the scope and usefulness of the CAS framework in relation to their own work. Others have raised important questions about the epistemological flexibility of CAS and about the institutional pressures that could limit further extensions of CAS, especially given current trends in the academy. This new volume tackles these questions and showcases how CAS can accommodate a wider range of scholarship predicated on more varied methodological and epistemological principles. This includes not only contextualized comparisons of countries from different regions but also interpretive work, comparisons of sub-national units, as well as inter-regional comparisons addressing topics such as global human rights and the rise of regional powers that go beyond comparative politics (the focus of the first volume). This book also offers practical, realistic discussions of how our current institutional architecture can be adapted to support cross-regional comparative research and to better connect different area studies communities--while acknowledging the long-standing value of deep area expertise.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP eBook
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197809396
• Artikelnr.: 75203106

Autorenporträt

Ariel I. Ahram is Professor at the Virginia Tech School of Public & International Affairs in Arlington. He is an Associate of the Institute of Middle East Studies of the GIGA, the German Institute for Global and Area Studies. He earned his PhD in government and MA in Arab studies at Georgetown University and BA at Brandeis University. Patrick Köllner is Vice President of the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Director of the GIGA Institute for Asian Studies, and a professor of political science at the University of Hamburg. He studied politics and management as well as modern Japan studies at the universities of Konstanz and Essex and holds a doctorate and a habilitation in political science from Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Trier, respectively. Rudra Sil is Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught since obtaining his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. His scholarly interests encompass Russian/post-communist studies, Asian studies, labor politics, international development, qualitative methodology, and philosophy of social science.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Contributors
* Prologue
* Comparative Area Studies: Implications for Institutional Architecture
* Timothy J. Power
* Chapter 1. Introduction
* Extending the Horizons of Comparative Area Studies (CAS): Analytical
Heterogeneity and Organizational Challenges
* Patrick Köllner, Rudra Sil, and Ariel I. Ahram
* Part I. CAS and the Prospects for Interpretation across Contexts
* Chapter 2. Communicating Across Contexts: How Translation Can Benefit
Comparative Area Studies
* Erica S. Simmons and Nicholas Rush Smith
* Chapter 3. Comparative Area Studies and Interpretivism: Towards an
Interpretive-Comparative Research Approach
* Anna Fünfgeld
* Part II. How CAS Benefits, and Benefits from, Varied Strategies of
Causal Analysis
* Chapter 4. Causal Explanation with Ideal Types: Opportunities for
Comparative Area Studies
* Ryan Saylor
* Chapter 5. Advancing Theory Development in Comparative Area Studies:
Practical Recommendations for Evaluating the Equifinality of Causal
Mechanisms
* Marissa Brookes and Jesse Dillon Savage
* Chapter 6. The Best of Two Worlds? Generalizing and Individualizing
through Multi-Method Research in Comparative Area Studies
* Matthias Basedau and David Kuehn
* Part III. Rethinking the Sites and Spaces of Comparison
* Chapter 7. Crossing the Boundaries of Comparison: Comparative Area
Studies and Comparative Historical Analysis
* Amel Ahmed
* Chapter 8. Comparison as Ontology, Region as Concept: On the
Synergies of Comparative Area Studies
* Erik Martinez Kuhonta
* Chapter 9. The Contextualized Comparative Sector Approach:
Comparative Area Studies at the Sectoral Level of Analysis
* Roselyn Hsueh
* Part IV . CAS and the Promise of Global IR
* Chapter 10. The Promise of Comparative Area Studies for the Study of
Human Rights
* Eileen Doherty-Sil
* Chapter 11. Revisionist (Eurasian) Powers and the West: A Comparative
Area Studies Bridge
* between International Relations Theory and Area Expertise
* Nora Fisher-Onar
* Part V. Organizational Challenges and Institutional Frameworks for
CAS
* Chapter 12. Comparative Area Studies: Programs, Departments,
Constraints, Opportunities
* Sara Wallace Goodman and Thomas Pepinsky
* Chapter 13. Comparative Area Studies in the Great Brain Race:
Institutional Legacies and
* Programmatic Innovation in the Global Age
* Ariel I. Ahram and Connie Stovall
* Epilogue
* Amrita Narlikar