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What
is IAS? A Short Personal Statement
International and Area Studies at Berkeley is a hybrid organization,
dedicated to promoting international and area studies at
Berkeley. That is, it oversees and works with organizational
research units (ORUs) concerned with non-US areas and issues
(from Africa to Southeast Asia, International Economy to
Romance Studies). IAS also provides a range of international
services (such as faculty exchange and study abroad). Finally,
it houses interdisciplinary (and international and area
studies) teaching programs (such as Political Economy of
Industrial Societies and Peace and Conflict Studies).
Thus,
IAS promotes and facilitates the three principal missions
of a research university: research, teaching, and service,
albeit curiously restricted to the world outside of the
US. In some ways, then, it functions as a college within
a larger university setting.
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