The Political Culture of Foreign Area and International Studies

The Political Culture of Foreign Area and International Studies
Author: Richard J. Samuels
Publisher: Potomac Books
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1992
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Ten essays from a June 1991 conference in Dedham, Massachusetts explore the political cultures that shape both the agenda and the content of scholarship on foreign areas, and how such political cultures have been the subject of both study and public policy. No index. Annotation copyright Book News,

Political Culture and Foreign Policy in Latin America

Political Culture and Foreign Policy in Latin America
Author: Roland H. Ebel
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780791406045

This book explores the impact of Latin America's political culture on the international politics of the region. It offers a general account of traditional Iberian political culture while examining how relations among states in the hemisphere -- where the United States has been the central actor -- have evolved over time. The authors assess the degree of consistency between domestic and international political behavior. The assessments are supported by case studies.

Culture and Foreign Policy

Culture and Foreign Policy
Author: Howard J. Wiarda
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2016-05-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 131715603X

Political culture refers to the basic values, ideas, beliefs and political orientations by which countries, societies, and whole regions are guided. The underlying belief systems that shape cultures and societies and cause them to behave in certain, often distinct ways. The puzzle or query that chiefly concerns this author is why the United States (US) and its foreign policy have such a hard time understanding cultures and societies other than their own. This provocative book argues that the US needs to end its attitudes of superiority and condescension toward other nations and cultures and redirect its foreign policy accordingly. After an introduction that sets forth the main theoretical and conceptual arguments, the next chapters explore all the main areas of the world. The Conclusion pulls all these themes together, analyzes the common patterns that emerge, and suggests new directions for U.S foreign policy.

The Politics of Knowledge

The Politics of Knowledge
Author: David L. Szanton
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2004-09-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780520245365

The usefulness and political implications of Area Studies programs are currently debated within the Academy and the Administration, where they are often treated as one homogenous and stagnant domain of scholarship. The essays in this volume document the various fields’ distinctive character and internal heterogeneity as well as the dynamism resulting from their evolving engagements with funders, US and international politics, and domestic constituencies. The authors were chosen for their long-standing interest in the intellectual evolution of their fields. They describe the origins and histories of US-based Area Studies programs, highlighting their complex, generative, and sometimes contentious relationships with the social science and humanities disciplines and their diverse contributions to the regions of the world with which they are concerned.

In Citations

In Citations
Author: D. Venkat Rao
Publisher: Allied Publishers
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1999
Genre: India
ISBN: 9788170239451

The Oxford Handbook of Political Science

The Oxford Handbook of Political Science
Author: Robert E. Goodin
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 1558
Release: 2011-07-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0191619795

Drawing on the rich resources of the ten-volume series of The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science, this one-volume distillation provides a comprehensive overview of all the main branches of contemporary political science: political theory; political institutions; political behavior; comparative politics; international relations; political economy; law and politics; public policy; contextual political analysis; and political methodology. Sixty-seven of the top political scientists worldwide survey recent developments in those fields and provide penetrating introductions to exciting new fields of study. Following in the footsteps of the New Handbook of Political Science edited by Robert Goodin and Hans-Dieter Klingemann a decade before, this Oxford Handbook will become an indispensable guide to the scope and methods of political science as a whole. It will serve as the reference book of record for political scientists and for those following their work for years to come.

Decentering America

Decentering America
Author: Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781845452056

This is an introduction for academics, students, and poltical analysts to some of the latest trends in the study and state of culture and international history: modernity, NGOs, internationalism, cultural violence, the 'Romance of Resistance', and the culture of diplomacy.

The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy

The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy
Author: Michael Moran
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks of Political
Total Pages: 1012
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780199269280

Public policy is the business end of political science. It is where theory meets practice in the pursuit of the public good. Political scientists approach public policy in myriad ways. Some approach the policy process descriptively, asking how the need for public intervention comes to be perceived, a policy response formulated, enacted, implemented, and, all too often, subverted, perverted, altered, or abandoned. Others approach public policy more prescriptively, offering politically-informed suggestions for how normatively valued goals can and should be pursued, either through particular policies or through alternative processes for making policy. Some offer their advice from the Olympian heights of detached academic observers, others as 'engaged scholars' cum advocates, while still others seek to instill more reflective attitudes among policy practitioners themselves toward their own practices. The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy mines all these traditions, using an innovative structure that responds to the very latest scholarship. Its chapters touch upon institutional and historical sources and analytical methods, how policy is made, how it is evaluated and how it is constrained. In these ways, the Handbook shows how the combined wisdom of political science as a whole can be brought to bear on political attempts to improve the human condition.

Hierarchies of Belonging

Hierarchies of Belonging
Author: Ailsa Henderson
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 0773560475

Nationalism has long been a potent political force in Scotland and Quebec. Hierarchies of Belonging explores the construction of national identity and nationalism and its effect on how citizens of Scotland and Quebec understand their relationship to the nation and the state.