Marijke Breuning
Biographic Data
| ID | 307620 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marijke Breuning |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marijke |
| FAMILY NAME | Breuning |
| SIGNATURE | BREUNING M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Texas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9981-3989 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 74 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 503 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 74 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
The effects of the Russia–Ukraine war on Ethiopian foreign policy roles
This paper assesses the impact of the Russia–Ukraine war on altering the foreign policy role conceptions of Ethiopia. In the following paper, we briefly describe role theory as a framework to examine changes in Ethiopian foreign policy that resulted from the shock of the war. We then use this framework to examine the impact that the Russia–Ukraine war had on Ethiopian foreign policy. We find that the war did not fundamentally change Ethiopia’s pr…
Madness as Strategy? Leader Reputation and the Logic of Elite Purges in Autocracies
Objective Are leaders perceived as “mad” more likely to employ violent repression against elites? This article examines how a leader's reputation for madness shapes the use of violent military purges in authoritarian regimes. Methods Using a global dataset covering 110 countries from 1981 to 2005, we analyze whether perceived madness influences leaders’ decisions to violently remove military elites. Results The results show that a reputation for …
Forum: Promise and Peril of Being a SLAC Professor
The purpose of this forum is to illuminate the pros and cons of a career at a small liberal arts college (or SLAC). Using different perspectives, the forum highlights the diversity of international studies career paths. The forum places particular emphasis on the differences between SLAC careers and those at research-intensive institutions and discusses the ways that teaching-centric jobs at SLACs can be both extraordinarily rewarding and challen…
Reconnecting Evidence and Theory: Building Knowledge from the Ground Up
This International Studies Association Presidential Address argues that international studies needs to rethink the field’s identity, and its value to students and society—an issue that is urgent due to the challenges facing higher education. International studies has long valued theory and theoretical paradigms over the careful evaluation of theory on the basis of evidence. The address argues that the incentive structure that encourages this focu…
National Roles and Foreign Policy
Role theory has been part of foreign policy analysis (FPA) for decades. In its first generation, role theory was primarily structural, whereas its second generation focuses on agency. Second-generation role theory draws on symbolic interactionism in social psychology, shares assumptions in common with constructivism, and pursues an eclectic mix of empirical strategies. Most second-generation role theory scholarship in FPA focuses on the ways stat…
Who Publishes Open Access
Open access (OA) publishing makes scholarship more accessible to readers but also presents additional hurdles for authors. This article examines determinants of OA publishing in well-respected, subscription-based journals. We find that research funding provides the strongest explanation for OA publishing, although various aspects of authorship and an author’s affiliation with a European versus a US institution also matter. We discuss the implicat…
Personalism and purges: Are personalist dictators more likely to engage in elite purges
Objective In this article, we empirically examine the relationship between personalism and employing purging or cooptation as regime elite management techniques. Much of the literature suggests that there is a close relationship between personalism and the use of violence to maintain power, and thus suggests a connection between personalism and violent purges. Methods Using data from 109 autocracies from 1946 to 2008, we employ a seemingly unrela…
When in Debt, Appoint Women? A Re-Examination of Aid, Debt, and the Inclusion of Women in African Cabinets
Are more aid-dependent and indebted countries more likely to include women in their cabinets? Several studies have suggested that such countries seek to please donors and lenders. Focusing on Africa, we test whether leaders respond to international incentives and, specifically, signal donors and lenders that they value gender equality in political decision-making. Although leaders have more direct control over the gender composition of the cabine…
Role Theory
Role theory in Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) is grounded in concepts derived from role theory and symbolic interactionism in sociology and social psychology. It represents the earliest effort to take the agent-structure problem seriously. The first generation of role theory in FPA tended to emphasize structural constraints, whereas the second generation has focused on the agency of decision makers. The chapter describes how the two generations di…
Forum: Gendered Dynamics of Academic Networks
This forum examines whether scholars’ access to networks in the international studies profession is gendered and if so, the consequences of those networks for personal and professional success. Academic networks that encompass both professional and personal connections have been proposed as one solution to chilly climate issues because they provide a dual function of enhancing scholarly productivity and inclusion in the profession. The articles i…
Anxiety and the Onset of Covid-19: Examining Concerns of Historically Excluded Scholars
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic increased uncertainty, leading to questions about how it spread, how long it would last, and its long-term effects. In academia, many scholars worried about their positions and career advancement. Our research focuses on how different groups within academia coped during the initial period of the pandemic, with particular attention paid to the role of anxiety. We argue that vulnerable groups, such as historically…
Rethinking the Undergraduate Political Science Major: An Introduction to the Symposium
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Is the Expansion of Women’s Access to Political Leadership Rewarded? Evidence from the Allocation of US Foreign Aid
Do donor states reward recipient states for signaling a commitment to expanding the role of women in political decision making? Previous studies show that women are associated with positive outcomes for peace duration and governance. We theorize that donor states reward recipient states that make a commitment to women's empowerment in political decision making and test our hypotheses using data on the distribution of US foreign aid to recipient s…
Confronting Russia
Russia has become increasingly assertive in its foreign relations with surrounding states—especially toward those states that were formerly part of the Soviet Union. Although much attention has been paid to the Russian reassertion in the near abroad, very little work has been done on how the citizens of former Soviet states see their state’s place in the world, particularly relative to Russia. Although Russia may view the former Soviet states as …
The Great Equalizer? Gender, Parenting, and Scholarly Productivity During the Global Pandemic
Has the global COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacted the scholarly productivity of academics? Do gender and parenting magnify its effect? To obtain insight into the changes the pandemic has wrought in the lives and careers of women and parents in academia, we surveyed scholars in political science and international studies. The survey was in the field during the period in which many academics were experiencing shelter-at-home orders and adjusting…
Not a Leaky Pipeline! Academic Success is a Game of Chutes and Ladders
The structure of academia is a hierarchal, patriarchal system, and success depends on familiarity with a hidden curriculum and hidden shortcuts in what we call the game of Academic Chutes and Ladders (Crawford and Windsor 2021). This system and its hidden curriculum-that is, the unwritten set of rules and norms rooted in traditional routes to academic advancement-disproportionately benefit men, who historically have participated only F i g u r e …
Building Civil Society? An Assessment of the new Ethiopian Civil Society Law and Its Promise for Promoting Democracy
A key part of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's effort to promote the development of civil society is a new law, proclamation 1113/2019, which significantly expands the allowed activities of civil society organizations (CSOs) - especially in comparison to the earlier 2009 law. We examine the genesis of the new law, which was promulgated after the wave of protests in 2016-2019, as well as its impact on the ability of CSOs to work on advocacy o…
Half of the Cabinet: Explaining Ethiopia's Move to Gender Parity in the Government
Half a year after rising to the position of prime minister in Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed appointed a cabinet that included an unprecedented 50% women, including the first female minister of defense. This was noteworthy, because women had not been well-represented in Ethiopian political leadership. What motivated the appointment of so many women? We argue that the selection of ministers in aid-dependent global south countries responds to external cues-a…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Ethiopia in Transition
Going Dutch? Lessons from the Outcome-Based Political Science Curriculum in the Netherlands
Dutch political science curricula integrate the acquisition of knowledge of the discipline and transferable skills. This makes it an interesting case for US political science education, especially in light of Wahlke’s (1991) recommendations for a structured political science curriculum that incorporates skills training in addition to knowledge of the field. Although some of Wahlke’s recommendations were widely adopted, US political science curric…
Role Dissonance in Foreign Policy: Russia, Power, and Intercountry Adoption
States often play multiple roles on the world stage, which need not fit together coherently. Moreover, foreign policy roles may be dissonant with one another: auxiliary roles may detract from the state's master role or status. What prompts decision makers to address role dissonance and role conflict? Building on earlier role theory research, we develop a framework that theorizes when and how role dissonance turns into conflict between a state's m…
The consequences of accession: The Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption’s Impact on Children’s Rights
Difficult Commitments: Intercountry Adoption to the United States and Accession to the Hague Convention
Why have relatively few countries joined the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-Operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption? Have countries that send children to the United States been more likely to join? The United States has joined this convention and prefers sending countries to do so also. However, our findings show that countries that send children to the United States are not more likely to join than other countries. In ad…
Clearing the Pipeline? Gender and the Review Process at the American Political Science Review
Is the peer-review process at academic journals gendered? The answer to this question has important implications for the advancement of women in the political science profession. However, few studies have had access to data that can evaluate whether the peer-review process is gendered. We investigate this for papers submitted to the American Political Science Review across two editorial teams to identify trends over time. We evaluate overall diff…
How International Is Political Science? Patterns of Submission and Publication in the American Political Science Review
How international in scope is publishing in political science? Previous studies have shown that the top journals primarily publish work by scholars from the United States and, to a lesser extent, other global-north countries. However, these studies used published content and could not evaluate the impact of the review process on the relative absence of international scholars in journals. This article evaluates patterns of submission and publicati…
Rationalization and Derivation Processes in Survey Studies of Political Candidate Evaluation
In order to assess the determinants of voters' candidate preferences, some analysts have examined responses to open-ended questions that ask citizens what might make them vote for or against a particular candidate. However, psychological theory and research suggest that the success of these reports in predicting voting may be because they reflect rationalizations of preferences rather than the reasons that give rise to them. And indeed, using dat…
Words and Deeds: Foreign Assistance Rhetoric and Policy Behavior in the Netherlands, Belgium, and the United Kingdom
Alternative hypotheses involving self-interested versus benevolent motives have played an important role in the study of foreign assistance policy behavior. Most often, such studies infer motives from data regarding the foreign assistance expenditures of a donor state. This study moves beyond such inferences. First, donor self-interest can take different forms that are likely to be expressed in different policies. Second, inferences about motivat…
A Century of Continuity and (Little) Change in the Undergraduate Political Science Curriculum
Although in recent years there has emerged a renewed interest in teaching and learning issues in the APSA, relatively little attention has been paid to the structure of the undergraduate political science curriculum. In this article we conduct a broad survey of articles that appeared in the APSR from 1906 to 1990 and find that (1) in the past the association paid much attention to the undergraduate political science curriculum; (2) over time atte…
Integrating Foreign Policy Analysis and International Relations through Role Theory: Integrating FPA and IR
Journal Article Integrating Foreign Policy Analysis and International Relations through Role Theory Get access Cameron G. Thies, Cameron G. Thies University of Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Marijke Breuning Marijke Breuning University of North Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Foreign Policy Analysis, Volume 8, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 1–4, https://do…
The Last Laugh: Skill Building through a Liberal Arts Political Science Curriculum
Quite often, people make jokes at the expense of political science majors. These jokes suggest that political science majors—and especially those graduating from liberal arts colleges and universities—have not acquired the necessary practical skills to make a living, let alone to acquire a lucrative career
Women and Pre-Tenure Scholarly Productivity in International Studies: An Investigation into the Leaky Career Pipeline
Why are women still relatively scarce in the international studies profession? Although women have entered careers in international studies in increasing numbers, they represent increasingly smaller percentages as they move from PhD student to full professor. Our survey investigates why this is so, focusing on the assistant professor years, which are crucial to succeeding in the profession. We found that there are significant differences in publi…
What’s in a name? Ethnic party identity and democratic development in post-communist politics
There has been surprisingly little literature differentiating between different kinds of ethnic parties. Most works tend to treat all ethnic parties as if they are basically the same. Although, to be sure, there have been some notable works attempting to differentiate types of ethnic parties, they tend to emphasize the territorial or political demands made by ethnic parties to distinguish the different types rather than the parties’ organizationa…
Gender and generosity: Does women's representation affect development cooperation
Does women's representation influence foreign (aid) policy? And, if so, is this best explained as a function of women's unique values or attributable to the impact of greater gender equality? Building on previous work, we investigate whether women's greater presence in political life – evidence of greater gender equality – is associated with greater generosity, or whether women's values and (some) women's ability to influence policy as ministers …
Promise and Performance: An Evaluation of Journals in International Relations
What kind of international relations research gets published in the field’s most recognized journals? Who are its authors? This study investigates the subject matter, methodology, and origin of recent research published in top international relations journals, building on earlier work that has investigated the contents of journals. This study investigates the contents of three international relations journals—International Studies Quarterly, Inte…
The Politics of Intercountry Adoption: Explaining Variation in the Legal Requirements of Sub-Saharan African Countries
What determines whether a country has more or less restrictive policies regarding intercountry adoption? Despite the growing importance of intercountry adoption as a political issue, and as an explicitly human face of globalization, there is virtually no systematic empirical work on intercountry adoption. We introduce a measure of the restrictiveness of the adoption laws in Sub-Saharan African countries and test possible explanations for the vari…
The Role of Analogies and Abstract Reasoning in Decision-Making: Evidence from the Debate over Truman's Proposal for Development Assistance
Analogical, or case-based reasoning has received quite a bit of attention in the literature on foreign policy decision-making. There has been little attention paid to whether analogical reasoning does indeed predominate or to what degree abstract reasoning plays a role in the decision-making process. If decision-makers do not primarily reason by analogy (an empirical question), then the focus on such reasoning runs the risk of ignoring important …
Gender and Journal Authorship in Eight Prestigious Political Science Journals
How well are women authors represented in the most-recognized journals in political science? To what degree does the presence of women authors mirror women's presence in the discipline? Although a few studies have sought to provide data on the presence of women authors in political science journals (Young 1995; Kelly et al. 1994), more recent work on the visibility of women in the discipline has focused on gender and authorship of edited volumes …
The Rhetoric of Nationalism: Rhetorical Strategies of the Volksunie and Vlaams Blok in Belgium, 1991-1995
There has been a long-standing interest in comparative politics in the role played by ethnically based nationalist parties in promoting or retarding ethnic political conflict. This article examines one behavior of such parties in promoting or restraining conflict: the rhetoric these parties use. Based on rhetorical theory and literature on ethnic parties, we put forward four expectations regarding the relationship between the kind of party and th…
Assessing Assessment: Examining the Assessment Plans at 50 Political Science Departments
This paper represents a broad survey study of assessment models used in political science programs at 50 universities and colleges across the country. We examine the most frequently used assessment activities and then investigate whether differences between institutions is a function of institutional characteristics. What are the techniques currently employed by departments across the country
A Survey of International Studies Programs at Liberal Arts Colleges and Universities in the Midwest: Characteristics and Correlates
International studies majors have become increasingly popular at liberal arts colleges and universities in the Midwest. What are the features of various international studies programs, particularly regarding the degree of “structure” in the major? What factors appear to be related to whether a liberal arts college or university offers an international studies major in the first place? What explains the variations that exist that characterize inte…
Women's Representation and Development Assistance: A Cross-National Study
Does women's representation affect the state's emphasis on development assistance? Earlier studies have found gender differences in foreign policy preferences. This study builds on that literature and advances two hypotheses regarding the impact of women's presence in national legislatures on the state's development assistance policy: (1) The women's values thesis builds on a literature that argues that women emphasize peace and social justice; (…
Roles and Realities: When and Why Gatekeepers Fail to Change Foreign Policy
The adoption of international norms by a state depends on the active support of decision makers in key gatekeeping positions. Yet, political change does not inevitably follow the initiatives of norm entrepreneurs. The literature on norm dynamics has largely focused on successful norm change. This focus on cases that support the notion that norms matter constitutes selection on the dependent variable. To more fully grasp the role and limits of gat…
Organizing to rule: Structure, agent, and explaining presidential management styles in Africa
Recent studies of comparative presidentialism have emphasized the importance of informal relationships between presidents and other political actors in explaining how presidents build governing coalitions. What has generally been under-investigated in the literature is how the characteristics of "presidents as agents" impact how they interact with other political actors – in particular, how presidents relate to their cabinets in terms of turnover…
Educational Access and Peace Duration in Post-Conflict Countries
Does increased access to education after the end of a civil war reduce or increase the risk of the resumption of civil war? As several scholars have argued, increased access to education is linked with the promotion of civil society, reduces economic inequality, and improves the livelihood of the population (Walter 2004). Moreover, by promoting education, the government signals to the population that it is concerned with the citizens of the count…
Is the Expansion of Women’s Access to Political Leadership Rewarded? Evidence from the Allocation of US Foreign Aid
Do donor states reward recipient states for signaling a commitment to expanding the role of women in political decision making? Previous studies show that women are associated with positive outcomes for peace duration and governance. We theorize that donor states reward recipient states that make a commitment to women's empowerment in political decision making and test our hypotheses using data on the distribution of US foreign aid to recipient s…
Role Dissonance in Foreign Policy: Russia, Power, and Intercountry Adoption
States often play multiple roles on the world stage, which need not fit together coherently. Moreover, foreign policy roles may be dissonant with one another: auxiliary roles may detract from the state's master role or status. What prompts decision makers to address role dissonance and role conflict? Building on earlier role theory research, we develop a framework that theorizes when and how role dissonance turns into conflict between a state's m…
Samaritans, Family Builders, and the Politics of Intercountry Adoption
Journal Article Samaritans, Family Builders, and the Politics of Intercountry Adoption Get access Marijke Breuning Marijke Breuning University of North Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Perspectives, Volume 14, Issue 4, November 2013, Pages 417–435, https://doi.org/10.1111/insp.12016 Published: 18 November 2013
Marketing the International Studies Major: Claims and Content of Programs at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions in the Midwest
What are the purposes and benefits of majoring in International Studies (IS)? We investigate how IS major programs at primarily undergraduate colleges and universities in the Midwest market themselves and compare the “advertised” benefits with the program requirements. Knowledge, career preparation, and foreign language study are the most frequently cited benefits. A lack of correlation between advertised program benefits and actual course requir…
Donor Characteristics and the Dispersion of Foreign Assistance
Clearing the Pipeline? Gender and the Review Process at the American Political Science Review
Is the peer-review process at academic journals gendered? The answer to this question has important implications for the advancement of women in the political science profession. However, few studies have had access to data that can evaluate whether the peer-review process is gendered. We investigate this for papers submitted to the American Political Science Review across two editorial teams to identify trends over time. We evaluate overall diff…
Activities and Appointments
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Twisting Arms and Holding Hands: M.A. Students and Conference Participation
Rationalization and Derivation Processes in Survey Studies of Political Candidate Evaluation
In order to assess the determinants of voters' candidate preferences, some analysts have examined responses to open-ended questions that ask citizens what might make them vote for or against a particular candidate. However, psychological theory and research suggest that the success of these reports in predicting voting may be because they reflect rationalizations of preferences rather than the reasons that give rise to them. And indeed, using dat…
Words and Deeds: Foreign Assistance Rhetoric and Policy Behavior in the Netherlands, Belgium, and the United Kingdom
Alternative hypotheses involving self-interested versus benevolent motives have played an important role in the study of foreign assistance policy behavior. Most often, such studies infer motives from data regarding the foreign assistance expenditures of a donor state. This study moves beyond such inferences. First, donor self-interest can take different forms that are likely to be expressed in different policies. Second, inferences about motivat…
Culture and Foreign Policy
During the Cold War years, one could argue that the constraints of the bipolar rivalry dwarfed in large part the domestic idiosyncrasies of nations. Now, however, nations often define national interest in terms of particularistic domestic motivations and imperatives--a change that calls for systemic study of the effect of societal culture on foreign policy. This collection introduces the reader to the evolution of thinking about culturue and fore…
Nationalism and nationalist parties: A comparison of the Flemish Volksunie and Vlaams Blok
Nationalist movements are not necessarily unified and may be represented by multiple nationalist political parties. When such parties emerge, do they form along subnationalist lines of cleavage? If so, the two Flemish nationalist parties in Belgium should be different kinds of party, appealing to different types of constituency. The historical divisions within the Flemish movement are employed to formulate expectations regarding the cleavage line…
Problem Representation in Foreign Policy Decision-Making
Previous studies of foreign policy decision making have largely focused on the choice among specified options rather than the prior question of how the options were specified in the first place. Such 'problem representation' is the focus of this volume. How do the game theorists' options and utilities come about? Concretely, for example, how and why in the Cuban missile crisis were blockade, air strike, and invasion chosen as options? To answer s…
The Rhetoric of Nationalism: Rhetorical Strategies of the Volksunie and Vlaams Blok in Belgium, 1991-1995
There has been a long-standing interest in comparative politics in the role played by ethnically based nationalist parties in promoting or retarding ethnic political conflict. This article examines one behavior of such parties in promoting or restraining conflict: the rhetoric these parties use. Based on rhetorical theory and literature on ethnic parties, we put forward four expectations regarding the relationship between the kind of party and th…
Ethnopolitical Parties and Development Cooperation: The Case of Belgium
What are the effects of ethnopolitical cleavages within the state on its foreign policy? This question has not received much attention in the literature. The coalition participation of ethnopolitical parties in Belgium offers a unique opportunity to empirically evaluate the implications of ethnic politics for a state's foreign policy. Twice, nationalist politicians held the post of minister of development cooperation. The rhetoric and policy beha…
People in Political Science
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Women's Representation and Development Assistance: A Cross-National Study
Does women's representation affect the state's emphasis on development assistance? Earlier studies have found gender differences in foreign policy preferences. This study builds on that literature and advances two hypotheses regarding the impact of women's presence in national legislatures on the state's development assistance policy: (1) The women's values thesis builds on a literature that argues that women emphasize peace and social justice; (…
Women's representation and development assistance: A cross-national study
The Last Laugh: Skill Building through a Liberal Arts Political Science Curriculum
Quite often, people make jokes at the expense of political science majors. These jokes suggest that political science majors—and especially those graduating from liberal arts colleges and universities—have not acquired the necessary practical skills to make a living, let alone to acquire a lucrative career
Foreign Aid, Development Assistance, or Development Cooperation: What's in a Name
Does Participation in Undergraduate Research Affect Political Science Students
Despite great interest in the impact of undergraduate research on student development in the literature on higher education, there has not been much work done on the relationship between participation in undergraduate research and the development of political science students. This paper assesses the relationship between student participation in collaborative research projects with faculty and both student learning—operationalized in terms of sco…
Donor Characteristics and the Dispersion of Foreign Assistance
The Role of Analogies and Abstract Reasoning in Decision-Making: Evidence from the Debate over Truman's Proposal for Development Assistance
Analogical, or case-based reasoning has received quite a bit of attention in the literature on foreign policy decision-making. There has been little attention paid to whether analogical reasoning does indeed predominate or to what degree abstract reasoning plays a role in the decision-making process. If decision-makers do not primarily reason by analogy (an empirical question), then the focus on such reasoning runs the risk of ignoring important …
International Studies Programs: For What Purpose and for Whom? A Rejoinder to Hey
There is little consensus regarding the fundamental components of the international studies (IS) undergraduate curriculum. Indeed, our study (Ishiyama and Breuning, 2004) was undertaken in large part because we hoped to start a conversation about the mission of the IS major. We are therefore delighted to read the response by Jeanne Hey. Despite some differences of opinion, Hey shares a basic understanding of the relationship between international…
A Survey of International Studies Programs at Liberal Arts Colleges and Universities in the Midwest: Characteristics and Correlates
International studies majors have become increasingly popular at liberal arts colleges and universities in the Midwest. What are the features of various international studies programs, particularly regarding the degree of “structure” in the major? What factors appear to be related to whether a liberal arts college or university offers an international studies major in the first place? What explains the variations that exist that characterize inte…
Bringing ‘Comparative’ Back to Foreign Policy Analysis
Promise and Performance: An Evaluation of Journals in International Relations
What kind of international relations research gets published in the field’s most recognized journals? Who are its authors? This study investigates the subject matter, methodology, and origin of recent research published in top international relations journals, building on earlier work that has investigated the contents of journals. This study investigates the contents of three international relations journals—International Studies Quarterly, Inte…
The International Relations of Apsa
In the July 2004 issue of PS, Ashu Varshney discussed the internationalization of the APSA and made a number of valuable suggestions. I applaud the APSA for bringing the discussion about internationalization into the association and Varshney for reporting a list of suggestions. Here, I would like to offer a perspective that supports the initiative but speaks from a different perspective in two ways: I am a faculty member at a primarily undergradu…
How International Are Undergraduate Political Science Programs at Liberal Arts and Sciences Colleges and Universities in the Midwest
Internationalization is a hot topic on college and university campuses today. It is also one of the hot button topics facing the APSA (see Varshney 2004; Breuning 2005). Although relatively recent to APSA, internationalizing the higher education curriculum has long been a concern of educational scholars. Arum (1987) identifies three areas in which campuses can pursue internationalization: promoting the international content of curricula, tracking…
A Century of Continuity and (Little) Change in the Undergraduate Political Science Curriculum
Although in recent years there has emerged a renewed interest in teaching and learning issues in the APSA, relatively little attention has been paid to the structure of the undergraduate political science curriculum. In this article we conduct a broad survey of articles that appeared in the APSR from 1906 to 1990 and find that (1) in the past the association paid much attention to the undergraduate political science curriculum; (2) over time atte…
Foreign Policy Analysis: A Comparative Introduction
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