The paper discusses how current methodological debates on the potential of comparative area studies intersect with current trends in transitional justice research. As the field of transitional justice studies is approaching saturation, academic efforts in this field are in-creasingly focused on...

In Switzerland, Latin American Studies are in a paradoxical situation in which most professors/researchers of the country in particular in the French speaking part are very pessimistic about their status, while the situation in the German speaking part seems to improve. It is important to keep...

Area studies in India have evolved as a discipline within public institutions, reflecting the plurality of discourses that define the profile of institutions in the country. Many Area studies experts share the policy narratives of the state, but there are many who do not subscribe to them and...