Ariel I. Ahram is associate professor of
government and international affairs in Virginia Tech's School of
Public and International Affairs.
Patrick K�llner is vice president of the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), director of the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies, and professor of political science at the University of Hamburg, Germany.
Rudra Sil is professor of political science at
the University of Pennsylvania where he is also SAS Director of the
Huntsman Program in International Studies & Business.
"This book offers a bold, original, and necessary statement about
the dual promise of comparative area studies research: new
theoretical insights of broad utility and novel understandings of
particular cases from multiple world regions."-James Mahoney,
Northwestern University
"This volume stakes out a new and provocative position in the old
debate between social science and area studies. The contributions
are clear-eyed about the challenges of this style of work, but make
a compelling case that it belongs in the comparativist's toolkit."
- Thomas Pepinsky, Cornell University
"Comparative Area Studies poses challenges that future generations
of comparative research will need to confront. Researchers in the
field may take issue with the balance that various authors strike
between contextualization and theory, or even with whether it is
possible for an integrated methodological framework to reconcile
these often contradictory concerns. But anyone who grapples with
the fundamental issues that the contributors address, and everyone
who seeks a guide for how to design comparative research, will
benefit from a close reading of this instructive collection." -
Jefferey M. Sellers, University of Southern California
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