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THE IMPACT OF THE WORKS OF MICHAEL FOUCALT ON POLITICAL SCIENCE ESPECIALLY IN THE US HAS BEEN NEGLIGIBLE. THE PAPER AIMS AT POSSIBLY BROADENING HIS APPEAL TO CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL SCIENCE BY ILLUSTRATING THE WORTH OF FOUCAULT'S THINKING FOR FORMULATING A REFLEXIVE UNDERSTANDING OF POLITICS AND POLITICAL ANALYSIS. IN PARTICULAR, IT EXPLORES HOW THE PROBLEMATIC NOTIONS OF "POLITICAL CULTURE" AND "INDIVIDUAL SUBJECTIVITY" MIGHT BE UNDERSTOOD MORE CRITICALLY IN LIGHT OF FOUCAULT'S STYLE OF INTERPRETIVE ANALYSIS.

Presents remarks from the 2001 American Political Science Association annual meeting; 7 articles. Partial contents: Politics, political science, and specialization, by Robert Jervis; In defense of diverse forms of knowledge, by Susanne Hoeber Rudolph; A plea for academic pluralism (and a little more intellectual humility), by Marion Smiley; Should we make political science more of a science or more about politics? by Rogers M. Smith; Interdisciplinary work and a search for shared scientific standards, by Kristen Renwick Monroe.

From my point of view, the scholar of Asia today is a 'global scholar', embedded not only in his/her area studies specialization, but also in constant intellectual dialogue with others in the same discipline, but focused on other Area studies fields. In practice, by dint of the complexity of the 'object', we are studying to becoming interdisciplinary. In short, the scholar of Asia today not only has greater savoir, s/he has an enhanced savoir faire: in a virtuous circle of scientific dialogue, greater interdisciplinarity leads to today's Asia scholar making a more substantial contribution to his/her 'home' discipline. Below, I shall argue the case for political science. David Camroux study of Southeast Asia in which he underlines the importance of state institutions and political parties in determining equitable outcomes, an argument applicable outside of the region. 11 All three place emphasis on the role of external forces and particularly on the immediate post-World War II period of decolonization as being a watershed in the path dependencies they describe. This insight is also crucial in Ja Ian Chong's, a Singaporean based academic's, nuanced comparative study of state formation in Indonesia and Thailand, as well as China. 12 Three of the above volumes have been published by Cambridge University Press, which has emerged as the most exciting publisher in the area of Southeast Asian politics. CUP has also just published an edited volume by one of the three editors of the 2008 Stanford publication, Erik Martinez Kuhonta, who with Allen Hickens brings together a representative group of younger political scientists to discuss political parties in Asia in a conceptually rich way. 13 CUP has also published two textbooks by more senior scholars, Jacques Bertrand and Bruce Gilley, both of which attest to the mainstreaming of the new scholarship in Southeast Asian politics. 14 This is also the case in two comparative overviews of the state of democracy throughout Asia, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2010 and 2014. ...

The turmoil surrounding the 1980 Olympic Games, says the author, was nothing new--it was merely the most recent, and most complex, manifestation of the political content of modern sport. Despite the mythology perpetrated by Olympic publicists, the modern Olympic Games were founded with expressly political goals in mind and continue to thrive on tie