Routledge Teaching International Affairs With Cases: Crossnational Perspectives

This book introduces intellectual and pedagogical problems in the case method of teaching international affairs. A growing international and interdisciplinary community of university and secondary schoolteachers and trainers of policy officials are introducing interactive learning methods for the classroom. This book offers lessons for them and provides new materials suitable for the classroom. Growing interest in interactive learning. About the Author Karen A. Mingst is professor and chair of the Department of Political Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky. She has published work on international organization and law, international political economy, and African politics in the major journals of the field. She is the author (with Margaret P. Kams) of The United Nations in the Post-Cold War Era (Westview, 1995), the co-editor and author (with Margaret P. Kams) of The United States and Multilateral Institutions: Patterns of Changing Instrumentality and Influence (Unwin Hyman, 1990), and the author of Politics and the African Development Bank (University Press of Kentucky, 1990). She is active in the International Studies Association, having served as both treasurer and vice president. Dr. Mingst has a long-standing interest in innovative teaching: She was a member of the Pew Faculty, Kennedy School at Harvard University, and received an Outstanding Teacher Award in the College of Arts and Science in 1992–1993 and the Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Teaching. She edited a special edition of International Studies Notes on case teaching. Katsuhiko Mori is associate professor at the Graduate School of International Relations at the International University of Japan. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Carleton University (Canada) in 1994. Dr. Mori is the author of The Political Economy of Japanese Official Development Assistance (Tokyo: International Development Journal, 1995). He is involved as codirector in the case-method workshop of the Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development in Japan.