Studies on Task and Methodology toward "Area Studies"

这是一份关于美国地区研究的简短报告，通过考察下列机构：(1)伍德罗·威尔逊国际学者中心，(2)约翰·霍普金斯大学高级国际研究学院，(3)北卡罗来纳大学/教堂山大学美国南方研究中心，(4)加州大学洛杉矶分校非裔美国人研究中心，美国印第安人研究中心和亚裔美国人研究中心，(5)UCB国际和地区研究中心，(6)威斯康星大学国际研究和项目办公室，(7)哥伦比亚大学8个地区研究所，通过考察发现，美国区域研究的特点是：(1)区域研究在美国不是一门独立的学科，虽然我们希望将区域研究确立为一门独立的学科，但这种思想并不被美国区域研究的研究者所接受。没有地区研究的博士学位，而是经济学、政治学等特定学科的博士学位。(2)美国的地区研究与当前的政治或经济问题密切相关。区域研究起源于二战后美国联邦政府的基本需要，这种趋势至今仍在继续。(3)苏联解体后，美国的全球战略从世界的二极化转向多极化。区域研究遵循新的战略，全球研究只是通过区域研究的整合才刚刚起步，而不是特定区域的研究。然而，由于保持了各个领域研究的独立性，并不能说是成功的。

This is a short report on the area studies in U.S.A. through the inspection of following institutions : (1) Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, (2) School of Advanced International Studies, the John Hopkins University, (3) Center for the Study of American South, University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill, (4) Center for Afro-American Studies, American Indian Studies Center, and Asian American Studies Center, UCLA, (5) International and Area Studies, UCB, (6)Office for International Studies and Programs, University of Wisconsin, (7) 8 Regional Institutes in Columbia University, and (8) East-West Center, Hawaii University.The characteristics of area studies in U.S.A. are observed through the inspection, which are as follows :(1) Area study is not an independent discipline in U.S.A.Although we like to establish area study as an independent discipline, this thought would not be accepted by American researchers of area studies. There is no doctor degree from area study but from particular discipline like as Economics, Politics and so on.(2) Area studies in U.S.A. are closely related in current issues of politics or economics. Area studies were originated from the basic needs of American Federal Government after the second war, and this current still now continues. And,(3) Global strategies of U.S.A. were, however, changed from dipolarization of world to multipolarization after Soviet Union was broken. Area studies follow the new strategy, and global studies are just started through the integration of area studies instead of the studies of particular areas. However, it could not say to be successful, because of keeping independence of each area study.