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analytical heterogeneity and organizational challenges
1 online resource (xix, 353 pages) : illustrations
"In a previous volume, Comparative Area Studies (Oxford University Press, 2018), the editors 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, more researchers have been keen to employ CAS to frame their own research, while others have raised new questions about the epistemological flexibility of CAS and about the organizational challenges that could limit further extensions of CAS. Advancing Comparative Area Studies tackles these issues while bringing in new voices, including those of fifteen scholars who had no connection to the first volume. The chapters collectively showcase how CAS can accommodate a broad range of scholarship predicated on more varied methodological and epistemological principles. This includes contextualized comparisons of countries from different regions as well as interpretive work, comparisons of sub-national units, as well as inter-regional comparisons on topics in international relations such as global human rights and the rise of regional powers. Moreover, the volume offers practical, realistic discussions of how our current institutional architecture can be adapted to support cross-regional comparative research and better connect different area studies communities - while acknowledging the long-standing value of deep area expertise. This book will be read by doctoral students in the fields of comparative politics and international relations; by scholars in the social sciences who do qualitative research; and by leaders of academic institutions, such as Deans and Provosts, who confront important decisions concerning the future of area studies centers and programs"-- Provided by publisher.
Prologue. Comparative area studies : implications for institutional architecture / Timothy J. Power -- Introduction. Extending the horizons of comparative area studies (CAS) : analytical heterogeneity and organizational challenges / Patrick Köllner, Rudra Sil, and Ariel I. Ahram -- Communicating across contexts : how translation can benefit comparative area studies / Erica S. Simmons and Nicholas Rush Smith -- Comparative area studies and interpretivism : towards an interpretive-comparative research approach / Anna Fünfgeld -- Causal explanation with ideal types : opportunities for comparative area studies / Ryan Saylor -- Advancing theory development in comparative area studies : practical recommendations for evaluating the equifinality of causal mechanisms / Marissa Brookes and Jesse Dillon Savage -- The best of two worlds? : generalizing and individualizing through multi-method research in comparative area studies / Matthias Basedau and David Kuehn -- Crossing the boundaries of comparison : comparative area studies and comparative historical analysis / Amel Ahmed -- Comparison as ontology, region as concept : on the synergies of comparative area studies / Erik Martinez Kuhonta -- The contextualized comparative sector approach : comparative area studies at the sectoral level of analysis / Roselyn Hsueh -- The promise of comparative area studies for the study of human rights / Eileen Doherty-Sil -- Revisionist (Eurasian) powers and the West : a comparative area studies bridge between international relations theory and area expertise / Nora Fisher Onar -- Comparative area studies : programs, departments, constraints, opportunities / Sara Wallace Goodman and Thomas Pepinsky -- 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.
edited by Ariel I. Ahram, Patrick Köllner, Rudra Sil.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]