title: We Don’t Do Area Studies : Reflections on the Development of the Genre of Research from a Political Science Perspective
abstract: As a young PhD in the mid-1980s I came of age in an academic world dominated by border police.These self-appointed guardians had taken it upon themselves to define the outer borders of political science.They were eager to point out when something was not kosher, when something theoretically or methodologically was not clearly within the narrow borders of political science as they perceived them.The alarm could be sounded on every level, from Bachelor's thesis seminars to a viva for PhD defense, 
journal: Malmö University Publications (Malmö University)