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Area and Regional Studies in the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2002

Peter J. Katzenstein
Peter J. Katzenstein
Affiliation:
Cornell University
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Area studies in the United States is under siege. Government and foundations are turning their attention and funds elsewhere. Although they operate from very diffrent quarters, critics are taking area studies harshly to task for both alleged errors of commission and omission. Yet mine is an optimistic message. These difficulties must be seen within the context of a change in the demographic composition of graduate studies in the U.S. An infusion of intellectual energy from foreign graduate students and post-docs is leading to a reinvention of traditional area studies as global networks of scholarly engagement. Over the longer term these networks, and the scholarship they will create and sustain, bode well for the continued intellectual vitality of this field of scholarship.

Type
Research Article
Information
PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 34 , Issue 4 , October 2001 , pp. 789 - 791
Copyright
© 2001 by the American Political Science Association

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Footnotes

*This article draws on a paper originally delivered in January 1999 at a conference on “International Relations and Area Studies: Curricula and Syllabi,” University of Tokyo, Institute for Oriental Studies.