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The International Relations of APSA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2005

Marijke Breuning
Marijke Breuning
Affiliation:
Truman State University
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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:

  1. I am a faculty member at a primarily undergraduate public liberal arts institution, the sort of institution that Varshney correctly claims needs the assistance of the association to take advantage of the opportunities offered by international connections. My institution is located in the Midwest, which is of some relevance for the argument.

  2. I am, in Varshney's definition, an international scholar. I obtained my Ph.D. in the U.S., but was born and raised in the Netherlands.

In addition, I would like to offer some further observations regarding the reasons why and for whom internationalization is useful.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , January 2005 , pp. 159 - 161
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© 2005 by the American Political Science Association

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