This interdisciplinary volume is a new introduction to area studies in the framework of whole-world thinking. Emerging in the United States after World War II,

This collection identifies the challenges facing area studies as an organized intellectual project in this era of globalization, focusing in particular on conce

In this pioneering volume, leading international scholars argue for the development of a new approach to social theory that draws on regional studies for the co

Under globalization, the project of area studies and its relationship to the fields of cultural, ethnic, and gender studies has grown more complex and more in n

The growing interdependence of the local and the global demand innovative approaches to human development. Such approaches, the author argues, ought to be based