Advancing Comparative Area Studies
Analytical Heterogeneity and Organizational Challenges
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 1 July 2025
- ISBN 9780197809365
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages376 pages
- Size 25x156x235 mm
- Weight 635 g
- Language English 675
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Short description:
Advancing Comparative Area Studies 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 behavior 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.
MoreLong description:
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.
Table of Contents:
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
