The title of this post asks, Does American International Relations Have a Regional Studies Problem? My initial reaction—and probably yours too—is that the answer must obviously be yes. But it’s a bit more complicated than that. To see why, let’s step back to look at a recent Twitter exchange between my Brookings colleague Sheena Greitens […]
Category: Teaching
Re-Reading Imagined Communities for the 1000th Time
Some books just stick with you. Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism is one of them. It was one of only two books that I was assigned to read in multiple classes in college. At Om Ben’s memorial service, my colleague Isaac Kramnick called it the “second-most important book […]
