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Advancing comparative area studies : analytical heterogeneity and organizational challenges / edited by Ariel I. Ahram, Patrick Köllner, Rudra Sil.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Area studies--Comparative method.
- Area studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (377 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- This text responds to questions about the analytic range of the comparative area studies (CAS) field and the organizational challenges it must navigate. The chapters demonstrate that CAS can cover a broad range of scholarship beyond cross-national comparisons, including interpretive work across different sites, sub-national comparisons at the sectoral level, and inter-regional comparisons addressing topics such as the behaviour of regional powers. The volume also considers how the institutional architecture of research universities can be adapted so as to better support cross-regional research and collaboration without sacrificing the quality of area expertise.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 15, 2025).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-780939-1
- 0-19-780940-5
- 0-19-780938-3
- OCLC:
- 1513825873
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