Advancing Comparative Area Studies

List of Contributors Prologue Comparative Area Studies: Implications for Institutional Architecture Timothy J. Power Chapter 1. Introduction Extending the Horizons of Comparative Area Studies (CAS): Analytical Heterogeneity and Organizational Challenges Patrick Köllner, Rudra Sil, and Ariel I. Ahram Part I. CAS and the Prospects for Interpretation across Contexts Chapter 2. Communicating Across Contexts: How Translation Can Benefit Comparative Area Studies Erica S. Simmons and Nicholas Rush Smith Chapter 3. Comparative Area Studies and Interpretivism: Towards an Interpretive-Comparative Research Approach Anna Fünfgeld Part II. How CAS Benefits, and Benefits from, Varied Strategies of Causal Analysis Chapter 4. Causal Explanation with Ideal Types: Opportunities for Comparative Area Studies Ryan Saylor Chapter 5. Advancing Theory Development in Comparative Area Studies: Practical Recommendations for Evaluating the Equifinality of Causal Mechanisms Marissa Brookes and Jesse Dillon Savage Chapter 6. The Best of Two Worlds? Generalizing and Individualizing through Multi-Method Research in Comparative Area Studies Matthias Basedau and David Kuehn Part III. Rethinking the Sites and Spaces of Comparison Chapter 7. Crossing the Boundaries of Comparison: Comparative Area Studies and Comparative Historical Analysis Amel Ahmed Chapter 8. Comparison as Ontology, Region as Concept: On the Synergies of Comparative Area Studies Erik Martinez Kuhonta Chapter 9. The Contextualized Comparative Sector Approach: Comparative Area Studies at the Sectoral Level of Analysis Roselyn Hsueh Part IV . CAS and the Promise of Global IR Chapter 10. The Promise of Comparative Area Studies for the Study of Human Rights Eileen Doherty-Sil Chapter 11. Revisionist (Eurasian) Powers and the West: A Comparative Area Studies Bridge between International Relations Theory and Area Expertise Nora Fisher-Onar Part V. Organizational Challenges and Institutional Frameworks for CAS Chapter 12. Comparative Area Studies: Programs, Departments, Constraints, Opportunities Sara Wallace Goodman and Thomas Pepinsky Chapter 13. Comparative Area Studies in the Great Brain Race: Institutional Legacies and Programmatic Innovation in the Global Age Ariel I. Ahram and Connie Stovall Epilogue Amrita Narlikar