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PS: Political Science & Politics (2005), 38: 159-161 Cambridge University Press
Copyright © 2005 by the American Political Science Association
doi:10.1017.S1049096505056179
Published online by Cambridge University Press 06 Apr 2005

Departments
International

The International Relations of APSA

Marijke Breuning a1c1
a1 Truman State University

In the July 2004 issue of PS, Ashu Varshney discussed the internationalization of the APSA and made a number of valuable suggestions. I applaud the APSA for bringing the discussion about internationalization into the association and Varshney for reporting a list of suggestions. Here, I would like to offer a perspective that supports the initiative but speaks from a different perspective in two ways:

  1. I am a faculty member at a primarily undergraduate public liberal arts institution, the sort of institution that Varshney correctly claims needs the assistance of the association to take advantage of the opportunities offered by international connections. My institution is located in the Midwest, which is of some relevance for the argument.
  2. I am, in Varshney's definition, an international scholar. I obtained my Ph.D. in the U.S., but was born and raised in the Netherlands.
In addition, I would like to offer some further observations regarding the reasons why and for whom internationalization is useful.


Correspondence:
c1 Marijke Breuning is associate professor of political science at Truman State University. Her substantive work on foreign policy and development cooperation has been published in International Studies Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, and numerous other journals. Her work on the international studies curriculum and other pedagogical subjects has appeared in, e.g., International Studies Perspectives and PS. She is currently part of the editorial teams of the Journal of Political Science Education and Foreign Policy Analysis.

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