Center of International Studies

The Center of International Studies, a "major research arm of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, supports scholarship in international relations, comparative politics, and regional studies. The Center is made up of over sixty-five faculty associates, drawn from several departments in the University, and hosts approximately a dozen visiting fellows each year. In their work, Center affiliates examine such issues as the causes and control of war, the political determinants of economic development, the changing role of international relations, and the history and politics of many of the world's key nations and regions. The Center is also the home of World Politics, one of the most highly regarded journals of comparative politics and international relations in the world."[1]

"It was founded when Yale University's Institute of International Studies was brought to Princeton, renamed and affiliated with the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University."[2]

Areas of Research

"Foreign relations and diplomacy, development studies, regional studies, security and defense, culture and religion, science and technology. Research projects are carried out within the following 10 institutes and programs: Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia; John Foster Dulles Program for the Study of Leadership in International Affairs; Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination; Program in Comparative and Regional Studies; Program in International Political Economy; Program on Nuclear Policy Alternatives; Program on US-Japan Relations; Research Program in International Security; Southern European Research Group; and World Order Studies Program."[3]

Advisory Council

• John N. Irwin III, Chair; Hillside Capital, Inc., New York, N.Y.
• Desaix Anderson, Artist and writer, New York, N.Y.
• Robert A. Bendheim, New York, N.Y.
• Gina H. Despres, Senior Vice President, Capital Research Management Co., Washington, D.C.
• James R. Gardner, Vice President, Investor Relations, Pfizer Inc., New York, N.Y.
• George J. W. Goodman, Adam Smith Global Television, Princeton, N.J.
• H.S.H. Prince Hans Adam II of Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
• H.H. Moulay Hicham Benabdallah of Morocco, Rabat-Agdal, Morocco
• Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland and Perretti, Morristown, N.J.
• Anthony Lake, Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
• Richard H. Missner, Chair; President, R. H. Missner Co., Inc., Chicago, Ill.
• Donald Oberdorfer Jr., Washington, D.C.
• John Reed, Former Cochair; Citigroup, New York, N.Y.
• John J. F. Sherrerd, Sherrerd Company, West Conshohocken, Pa.
• Paul M. Wythes, Sutter Hill Ventures, Palo Alto, Calif.

Contact

Bendheim Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Phone: 609-258-4851
FAX: 609-258-3988
URL: http://www.wws.princeton.edu/~cis/