UNITED STATES: Foreign policy hurt by skills shortage
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- Key intellectual trends
- Statistical emphasis
- 'Rational choice' theory
- Comparative studies
- Language programmes decline
- Changing anthropological studies
- Consequences
- Intellectual 'blind spots'
- Inadequate language resources
- Area studies declines
- Anthropologists' analytical reticence
- Exceptions to decline
- Policy responses
- Systematic language instruction
- 'In-house' training
- Banishing the theorists
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