Area Studies and Social Science

How should scholars construct knowledge about politics, economics, and international relations in major world regions? Growing tension between regional specialists and discipline-oriented social scientists has emeraged as a major issue in the fields of international, comparative, and area studies. [...]
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How should scholars construct knowledge about politics, economics, and international relations in major world regions? Growing tension between regional specialists and discipline-oriented social scientists has emeraged as a major issue in the fields of international, comparative, and area studies. Area Studies and Social Science demonstrates that the approaches must be combined to provide a firm foundation for studying the contemporary politics of the Middle East while offering strategies and insights germane to all social science disciplines and to many different world regions.