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Area Studies and the Discipline: A Useful Controversy?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Robert H. Bates
Robert H. Bates*
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Harvard University
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , June 1997 , pp. 166 - 169
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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1997

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This article draws heavily on Robert H. Bates, “Area Studies and Political Science: Rupture and Possible Synthesis,” Africa Today, Volume 44, No. 2 (1997), special issue on “The Future of Regional Studies.” I wish also to thank Timothy Cotton and Peter Hall, and the junior fellows of Harvard Academy, especially Daniel Posner, for their tough criticisms. I have failed to incorporate many of their suggestions, and therefore must assume complete responsibility of the defects that remain.

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