Bridging the Gap: IR, Middle East Studies and the Discipl e Area Studies Controversy

research remains surprisingly scarce. This article asks why, despite repeated calls since the inception of these fields, this interdisciplinary gap has never been bridged. It supplements conventional approaches which emphasize a simple intellectual history, with elements of a political economy of the organization and production of knowledge, arguing that inter unde requ the ship orga (re)p sider brid KEY natio An unprecedented state of crisis reigns in Middle East Studies. In a post-Cold War er of Are argue