Publications

2026 We Need a Revitalized Area Studies Rudra Sil · Inside Higher Ed — 2025 Extending the Horizons of Comparative Area Studies Rudra Sil · Advancing Comparative Area Studies: Analytical Heterogeneity and Organizational Challenges 1 2025 Sites, Phenomena, and the Search for Usable Knowledge: Beyond the ‘Standard Model’ of Political Science? Rudra Sil · QMMR: Qualitative and Multi-Method Research 3 2022 Russia’s Oil and Gas Industry: Soviet Inheritance and Post-Soviet Evolution Rudra Sil · Russian Politics Today 0 2020 Analytic Eclecticism – Continuing the Conversation Rudra Sil · International Journal: Canada's Journal of Global Policy Analysis 9 2020 Comparative Area Studies and the Study of the Global South Rudra Sil · Vestnik RUDN International Relations · Scholar only · needs review 10 2020 The Dynamics of Labor Militancy in the Extractive Sector: Kazakhstan's Oilfields and South Africa's Platinum Belt in Comparative Perspective Rudra Sil · Comparative Political Studies 17 2020 The Survival and Adaptation of Area Studies Rudra Sil · The SAGE Handbook of Political Science 10 2019 The Comparative Study of Anticorruption Campaigns Rudra Sil · The Political Logics of Anticorruption Efforts in Asia 0 2019 The Fate of Labor After Regime Change: Lessons From Post-Communist Poland and Post- Apartheid South Africa For Tunisia’s Nobel-Prize Winning Unions Rudra Sil · Economic and Industrial Democracy 14 2018 Anatomy of a Massacre: The Roots of Heightened Labour Militancy in South Africa's Platinum Belt Rudra Sil · Economy and Society 15 2018 Comparative Area Studies: Methodological Rationales and Cross-Regional Applications Rudra Sil · Oxford University Press · needs review 207 2018 Comparative Area Studies – What it is, What it can do Rudra Sil · Comparative Area studies 10 2018 The Dynamics of Labour Protest in an Era of Declining Social Protection Rudra Sil · Economy and Society 10 2018 Triangulating Area Studies, Not Just Methods: How Cross-Regional Comparison Aids Qualitative and Mixed-Method Research Rudra Sil · Comparative Area studies 48 2017 Labor’s Travails in Postcommunist Eastern Europe Rudra Sil · Current History 5 2017 The Battle Over Flexibilization in Post-Communist Transitions: Labor Politics in Poland and the Czech Republic, 1989-2010 Rudra Sil · Journal of Industrial Relations 25 2016 Avant-Garde or Dogmatic? DA-RT [Data Access & Research Transparency] in the Mirror of the Social Sciences Rudra Sil · APSA Comparative Politics Newsletter 10 2014 India Rudra Sil · Comparative Politics: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in a Changing Global Order · needs review — 2014 Which BRIC Will Wield the Most Influence in Twenty-Five Years? Russia Reconsidered Rudra Sil · International Studies Review 6 2013 Introduction: Symposium on Deconstructing Social Science Concepts Rudra Sil · QMMR: Qualitative & Multi-Method Research — 2013 The Fluidity of Labor Politics in Postcommunist Transitions: Rethinking the Narrative of Russian Labor Quiescence Rudra Sil · Political Creativity: Reconfiguring Institutional Order and Change 10 2012 When Multi-Method Research Subverts Methodological Pluralism – Or, Why We Still Need Single-Method Research Rudra Sil · Perspectives on Politics 171 2011 De-centering, not Discarding, the ‘Isms’: Some Friendly Amendments” – Response to David A. Lake, “Why ‘Isms’ are Evil Rudra Sil · International Studies Quarterly 90 2011 The political economy of an integrated Europe Rudra Sil · Governing the Global Economy: Politics, Institutions and Economic · Scholar only 8 2011 Toward Analytic Eclecticism: The Political Economy of an Integrated Europe Rudra Sil · Governing the Global Economy: Politics, Institutions and Economic Development — 2010 Analytic Eclecticism: Not Perfect, But Indispensable Rudra Sil · QMMR Newsletter 18 2010 Beyond Paradigms: Analytic Eclecticism in the Study of World Politics Rudra Sil · Palgrave Macmillan 1,076 2010 Reconfiguring Problems and Mechanisms Across Research Traditions: The Role of Analytic Eclecticism in the Study of World Politics Rudra Sil · Perspectives on Politics 879 2009 Area Studies, Comparative Politics, and the Utility of Cross-Regional Small-N Comparison Rudra Sil · QMMR: Qualitative & Multi-Method Research 11 2009 Beliefs as rules for action: Pragmatism as a theory of thought and action Rudra Sil · International Studies Review · Scholar only 85 2009 Is Multi-Method Research Really Better? Rudra Sil · QMMR: Qualitative & Multi-Method Research 37 2009 Simplifying Pragmatism: From Social Theory to Problem-Driven Eclecticism Rudra Sil · International Studies Review 61 2009 Symposium: Cautionary Perspectives on Multi-Method Research Rudra Sil · Qualitative & Multi-Method Research: Newsletter of the American Political · Scholar only 2 2008 The Contributions of Eclectic Theorizing to the Study and Practice of International Relations Rudra Sil · The Oxford Handbook of International Relations 319 2007 Reconfiguring Institutions Across Time and Space: Syncretic Responses to Challenges of Political and Economic Transformation Rudra Sil · Palgrave Press 37 2007 Stretching Postcommunism: Diversity, Context and Comparative Historical Analysis Rudra Sil · Post-Soviet Affairs 48 2007 The Dilemma of Institutional Adaptation and the Role of Syncretism Rudra Sil · Reconfiguring Institutions Across Time and Space 11 2007 The Dynamics of Institutional Adaptation and the Fruitful Emergence of Managerial Syncretism in Japan Rudra Sil · Reconfiguring Institutions Across Time and Space 0 2006 Communist Legacies, Postcommunist Transformations, and the Fate of Organized Labor in Russia and China Rudra Sil · Studies in Comparative International Development 42 2006 Review: Paul J. Kubicek, Organized Labor in Postcommunist States: From Solidarity to Infirmity (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004) Rudra Sil · The Russian Review — 2006 Slobodan Milošević: Charismatic Leader or Plebiscitarian Demagogue Rudra Sil · World Order after Leninism · Scholar only 6 2006 The Evolving Significance of Leninism in Comparative Historical Analysis: Theorizing the General and Particular Rudra Sil · World Order After Leninism 1 2006 World Order After Leninism Rudra Sil · University of Washington Press 31 2005 Evaluating the Restructuring of Labor Relations in Post-Soviet Russia Rudra Sil · Evaluating Success and Failure in Post-Communist Reform. Monograph no. 16, Keck Center for International & Strategic Studies, Claremont McKenna College — 2005 The Legacies of Soviet Nationality Politics and Divergent Patterns of Post-Soviet Ethno-Political Mobilization: Russian Minorities in the Baltics and Central Asia. Rudra Sil · Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC · Scholar only 2 2005 What is Analytic Eclecticism and Why Do We Need It? A Pragmatic Perspective on Problems and Mechanisms in the Study of World Politics Rudra Sil · A Pragmatist Perspective on Problems and Mechanisms in the Study of World · Scholar only 47 2004 Contending Perspectives on Japanese and Russian History: Comparing Narratives Across Time and Space Rudra Sil · American Political Science Association · Scholar only — 2004 Problems Chasing Methods Or Methods Chasing Problems? Research Communities, Constrained Pluralism, and the Role of Eclecticism Rudra Sil · Problems and Methods in the Study of Politics 50 2004 Rethinking Security in East Asia: A Case for Analytic Eclecticism Rudra Sil · Rethinking Security in East Asia: Identity, Power and Efficiency 177