Beyond the area studies wars : toward a new international studies
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Beyond the area studies wars : toward a new international studies
(The Middlebury bicentennial series in international studies)
University Press of New England, c2000
- : pbk.
Available at 6 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes index
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Because International Studies programs bring together scholars from many disciplines and divergent views, they illuminate and intensify the intellectual fault lines of the American academy. Globally oriented theorists confront area studies specialists, humanists engage social scientists, language and culture specialists contend with rational choice adherents. Yet the underlying imperative of such programs -- to produce students of the 21st century who can act effectively in a great variety of capacities in countries abroad -- requires that a modus vivendi be reached.
Beyond the Area Studies Wars offers a rich overview of a scholarly field engaged in remaking itself. Even as these essays point to seemingly intractable problems in shaping a new International Studies, they yield a note of implicit optimism by insisting that "a multi-layered, multidisciplinary investigation of human behavior is not only necessary, but possible."
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