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Unlike most attempts to build bridges across the chasms that divideacademic disciplines, Bridges and Boundaries succeeds spectacularly in spanning the gap. The Elmans have collected a high-quality group of contributors, leaders in their own disciplines of history and political science, yet experienced bridge-crossers. Their penetrating essays, including paired treatments of international historical issues by scholars from both fields, are especially good at identifying what the real boundaries between the disciplines are, why they exist, and how these complementary differences can make intellectual exchange across the boundaries so profitable. This is simply the best volume on the topic, including the Elmans' highly acclaimed special issue of International Security, which this collection builds upon and surpasses. -- Jack Snyder, Chair, Political Science Department, and Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Relations, Columbia University

About the Author

Colin Elman and Miriam Fendius Elman are Assistant Professors of Political Science at Arizona State University and International Security Fellows at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University. Miriam Fendius Elman is editor of Paths to Peace (MIT Press, 1997).

Reviews

"Unlike most attempts to build bridges across the chasms that divideacademic disciplines, Bridges and Boundaries succeedsspectacularly in spanning the gap. The Elmans have collected ahigh-quality group of contributors, leaders in their own disciplinesof history and political science, yet experiencedbridge-crossers. Their penetrating essays, including paired treatmentsof international historical issues by scholars from both fields, areespecially good at identifying what the real boundaries between thedisciplines are, why they exist, and how these complementarydifferences can make intellectual exchange across the boundaries soprofitable. This is simply the best volume on the topic, including theElmans' highly acclaimed special issue of InternationalSecurity, which this collection builds upon and surpasses." Jack Snyder, Chair, Political Science Department, and Robertand Renee Belfer Professor of International Relations, ColumbiaUniversity