Area Studies

The concept of Area Studies - definions, main features, genesis. The developmenst of Area Studies - description of main phases; Area Studies and development of concept region, regionalisation and regionalism; Regionalism and globalism in the theory of international relations; Area Studies and International Relations Studies - methodological debate during the cold war; Area Studies and IR Studies at the turn of XXI century; Area Studies and classical IR Theory (realism, liberalism; constructivism); Area Studies and post-positivist approaches

1. The concept of Area Studies - definions, main features, genesis. The developmenst of Area Studies - description of main phases; Area Studies and Social Science; Area Studies and Political Geography, Antropologhy

2. Area Studies and development of concept region, regionalisation and regionalism; Regionalism and globalism in the theory of international relations;

Area Studies and European Studies and Non-European Studies; Area Studies and IPE

3. Area Studies and International Relations Studies - methodological debate during the cold war; Area Studies and IR Studies at the turn of XXI century;

4. Area Studies and classical IR Theory (realism, liberalism; constructivism); Area Studies and post-positivist approaches (post-colonialism, critical theory);

5. Area Studies Analyses - case studies

1. L. Fawcet (ed.), The Third World beyond the Cold War, Oxford 2000 (access: Polish Institute of International Affairs, PISM Library, Warecka 1a)

2. S.G. Neumann (red.), International Relations Theory and the Third World, New York 1997 (PISM Library)

3. R.H. Jackson, Quasi-States: Sovereignty, International relations, and the Third World, Cambridge 1994 (PISM Library)

4. Bates, Robert H. 1997. Area studies and the discipline: A useful

controversy? PS: Political Science and Politics 30, no. 2: 166-

169.

5. Shaun Breslin, “IR, Area Studies and IPE: Rethinking the Study of

China's International Relations”, Workin Paper;

6. N.M. Tachimoto, Global Area Studies and Fieldwork, Working Paper, 2004

7. International Social Science Bulletin, 1952, nr 4, s. 633-702;

8. JOHN N. HAWKINS & VAL D. RUST, Shifting Perspectives on Comparative

Research: a view from the USA, Comparative Education Volume 37 No. 4 2001 pp. 501–506;

9. Area Studies and Comparative Area Studies: A

Primer on Recent Debates and Methodological

Challenges, Japan Aktuell 2007, nr 2;

paper written by students (two papers where students must answer for two research questions); each paper should have about 5-6 pages;

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