Scholars warn of ‘history deficit’ in foreign policy

It's an idea as old as history itself: turning to the record of past affairs to glean lessons for the present and insights for the future. But all too often in modern academia, history professors don't have much of an opportunity to communicate with those in other academic disciplines such as international relations. In fact, they're not even in the same family of academia. History, you see, resides among the humanities while international relations dwells in the social sciences along with poli

It's an idea as old as history itself: turning to the record of past affairs to glean lessons for the present and insights for the future. But all too often in modern academia, history professors don't have much of an opportunity to communicate with those in other academic disciplines such as international relations. In fact, they're not even in the same family of academia. History, you see, resides among the humanities while international relations dwells in the social sciences along with poli…