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A comment on Ishiyama & Breuning's "A Survey of International Studies Programs at Liberal Arts Colleges and Universities in the Midwest: Characteristics and Correlates" (2004) sees the piece as exactly what is needed for interdisciplinary international studies (IS), which has no central entity to provide data on existing programs. It is suggested that schools committed to interdisciplinarity will likely offer an IS degree, & it is lamented that there is no association dedicated to undergraduate IS programs. Ishiyama & Breuning are criticized for drawing on IS research to hypothesize on IS pedagogy because that interdisciplinarity, while central to undergraduate IS programs, is not central to IS research. It is asserted that IS cannot claim the status of an academic discipline for its lack of a common methodological approach & set of questions. What IS practitioners see as binding their research together is then considered, drawing on a literature review of International Studies Quarterly to reveal that the International Studies Assoc (ISA), as a research organization, is about international relations & not international studies. The view promoted is distinctly one of "IS as political science." Ishiyama & Breuning's ideas on structuring an IS major is reviewed, & while the merits of a structured major are noted, the question of whether it is appropriate to draw the model from political science or any other discipline is posed. Highlighted are problems in insisting on a disciplinary methods course for an interdisciplinary major as it might undermine that interdisciplinarity. American Studies is suggested as a source for inspiration in building IS programs. J. Zendejas

Das internationale System besteht aus einer Vielzahl von Institutionen, die häufig in ihren Funktionen überlappen, aber nicht in eine hierarchische Ordnung eingebettet sind. Ob diese institutionelle Komplexität zwischenstaatliche Zusammenarbeit stärkt oder schwächt, ist eine viel diskutierte Frage. Indem Benjamin Faude zeigt, dass funktional überlappenden internationalen Institutionen die Tendenz zur Herausbildung einer Arbeitsteilung inhärent ist, widerspricht er all denen, die von einer Schwächung internationaler Institutionen sprechen.

Various studies argue that larger groups are less likely to optimally provide a collective good. The following paper builds upon this work as it examines the provision of environmental collective goods through international regimes. Although the regime literature studied problems of collective action and their respective solutions before, we lack the knowledge to explain which situational characteristics actually induce these problems. The following article thus first disaggregates these characteristics along demand-side properties of goods (i.e., public goods, externalities, and common pool resources) and group size, and then analyzes their impact on international environmental regimes' depth of cooperation. The authors find evidence that larger regimes face problems for providing environmental public goods in an optimal way. Furthermore, the analysis demonstrates that this negative relationship holds true for externalities, but not for common pool resources. Adapted from the source document.

Hedley Bull, in the passage in The Anarchical Society which introduces the 'three competing traditions of thought' associated with the articulation of the modern states-system, cited Otto von Gierke as the originator of this influential way of organising international theory. This article examines Gierke's work in order to assess the extent of the influence on the English School that can be ascribed to him. It argues that in fact Gierke's version of the three traditions bears little resemblance to that of Bull, and that by 'international society' Gierke was referring to confederal structures of political power. Through an analysis of a significant strand of American revolutionary thought, the paper seeks to demonstrate the potential that further attention to the Gierkean understanding of international society could have for advancing the English School's research programme and building on its achievements.

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