Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS)

Director

Miguel A. Centeno

Assistant Director

Susan F. Bindig

Executive Committee

Miguel A. Centeno, Sociology

Isabelle Clark-Deces, Anthropology

Noreen Goldman, Woodrow Wilson School

Gene Grossman, Woodrow Wilson School, Economics

M. Şükrü Hanio˘glu, Near Eastern Studies

G. John Ikenberry, Woodrow Wilson School, Politics

Stephen M. Kotkin, History

Margaret R. Martonosi, Electrical Engineering

Jonas Pontusson, Politics

Anne-Marie Slaughter, Woodrow Wilson School, ex officio

 

Established in 2003, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) promotes interdisciplinary and collaborative teaching and research and on issues of global importance. Combining the activities and strengths of the University’s former Center of International Studies and Council on Regional Studies, PIIRS aims to integrate international and regional studies at the University into informed and coherent perspectives on global affairs.

PIIRS encourages faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates to engage in interdisciplinary research and curricular and extracurricular activities that supplement the offerings of departments and programs across campus. Specific opportunities for graduate students in international and regional studies through PIIRS include an annual conference that allows them to move beyond disciplinary boundaries and engage in interdisciplinary interaction and conversation on a range of significant political, social, and epistemological issues. Under the broad title “Bridging Disciplines, Spanning the World,” the graduate conferences to date have addressed issues of identity and inequality and of democracy and development. PIIRS also provides financial support for dissertation research and writing through annual competitive awards.

The institute also sponsors innovative research projects and a residential visiting fellows program, which promote exchanges between scholars who focus on particular regions and those who analyze more general processes that span areas and countries of the world. To enhance both its curricular and research activities, PIIRS, either alone or in collaboration with other programs and departments, supports annual conferences, lectures, and workshops on issues of global, regional, and cross-regional importance.

PIIRS publishes World Politics, one of the premier refereed journals in political science. It represents all disciplines, methods, and viewpoints relevant to the central problems of international relations, comparative politics, and national development.