In response to the International Studies Association’s annual theme–A Wider Discipline for a Smaller World-we offer a few reflections on how tapping into a broader array of disciplines and subjects can bring clarity and enhanced insights into our understanding of the urgent challenges of our times.
Our forthcoming special collection with 14 essays and five commentaries from leading academics and practitioners will examine the changing nature of multilateralism and global development. Collectively we analyze new forms of multilateralism, changes underway in old multilateralism, the possibility
"Asia has four of the world’s five remaining states organized explicitly on communist/Leninist lines: China, North Korea, Laos, and Vietnam. There is a rich diversity of topics to study with these four states alone."
We've removed the paywall from select issues of two of our leading international studies journals, Asian Survey and Current History. We invite those attending the International Studies Association either in person or virtually to explore two of the journals' most popular issues, Asian Survey's annua
The beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February 2022 shocked the world, setting off the largest-scale land war in Europe since at least the Balkan wars of the 1990s, and driving more than 1.5 million civilians to flee to countries to the west. Russian President Vladimir Putin had deli
"A global paradigm requires new research tools but not just in terms of standard scholarly quips around mixed methods approaches or interdisciplinary integrations. It is a far more difficult and challenging agenda"
Afghanistan has a rich history of customary or traditional governance structures which have remained central to the lives of most citizens, who rely on these community-based bodies to resolve disputes, provide small-scale public goods and services, and to broker relations with local government. The
We've removed the paywall from Asian Survey's annual year-in-review issue which looks back at the biggest stories concerning Asia in 2020, a year during which the COVID-19 pandemic and a trade dispute between the United States and China dominated the headlines. As the world continues to grapple with