Pt. 1. Issues beyond the disciplines. Is there room for the real world in the postmodernist universe? / David N. Gibbs ; Rational choice analysis and area studies: enemies or partners? / Margaret A. McKean ; Fragmented visions: excavating the future of area studies in a post-American world / Ravi Arvind Palat
Pt. 2. International studies and the disciplines. Attack on the straw men: postmodern critiques of anthropology and vice versa / Richard J. Perry (anthropology) ; Disputing the nature of the international: geographies of sameness and difference / John Agnew (geography) ; What's wrong with contemporary economics? / Paul Streeten (economics) ; Confessions of a pre-postmodernist; or can an old-timer change course? / James N. Rosenau (political science) ; Agency in the new world history / Ian J. Barrow (history) ; The American way of language learning / Jon M. Strolle (languages).