Global studies/Area studies

Although this Chronicle of Higher Education article is speaking to college level curriculum, its argument for the advantages of providing context for broad international policies by incorporating "area studies" within Global Studies are compelling ; even for a high school course.

"... global-studies programs would be stronger if they insisted that their students gain an intimate familiarity with at least one region of the world. It is important that these students have a place in which they can envision how abstract policies and concepts play out. I would further argue that those with a grounded understanding of particular places often are better equipped to study transnational linkages."