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The Center for Global, International and Regional Studies (CGIRS) fosters coordination and deepening of campus-wide collaboration of research, teaching and public education related to the new economic, social and political structures of our time. The Center's agenda encompasses "global, international and regional" studies, rooted in the recognition that human activities, while anchored in specific regions and locales, are also linked to other places and levels via complex political, economic, social and cultural networks of communication and action.
The Center is structured around five Programmatic Themes: Global Civil Society and Social Forces, Globalization, States and Governance, Global Environment, Development, Agriculture, and Resources, the New Global Political Economy: Regions, Networks and Properties, and Global Education, Action and Public Outreach. These provide the institutional space under which affiliated programs, institutes and individual research projects conduct their activities creating synergies between ideas, resources and results. They are not only specific areas of expertise but also the Center's unique contribution to research and policy development. The Center is able to focus on these complex questions precisely because it brings together diverse, leading edge thinking that can begin to provide practical, integrated understanding of these issues.
CGIRS facilitates and/or sponsors three types of activities: institutes, projects, workshops, and partnerships.
Institutes are organized around multi-disciplinary concentrations, with a "staff" of faculty members, research associates, and graduate students. Institutes are affiliated with CGIRS but are not directly administered by the Center.
Projects are organized by one or more faculty affiliate who have proposed a focused research agenda, to be undertaken over the course of a year or two. The Center provides a small amount of seed funding for projects, if it is available, with the understanding that members will seek larger, extramural grants to support their research.
Workshops are organized by faculty and graduate students and pursue in depth particular topics of shared interest. These groups meet regularly over the year and may decide to formulate a project for which members will seek intramural or extramural funding.
Partnerships are associations with other research centers and organizations, such as the Center for International Policy in Washington, DC, which involve collaborations on joint projects in Latin America and Africa, and the Institute for International Studies at UC-Berkeley. CGIRS also has a strong collaborative relationship with the Santa Cruz Center for International Economics, having provided seed funding and administration for it.
The Center is structured around five Programmatic Themes: Global Civil Society and Social Forces, Globalization, States and Governance, Global Environment, Development, Agriculture, and Resources, the New Global Political Economy: Regions, Networks and Properties, and Global Education, Action and Public Outreach. These provide the institutional space under which affiliated programs, institutes and individual research projects conduct their activities creating synergies between ideas, resources and results. They are not only specific areas of expertise but also the Center's unique contribution to research and policy development. The Center is able to focus on these complex questions precisely because it brings together diverse, leading edge thinking that can begin to provide practical, integrated understanding of these issues.
CGIRS facilitates and/or sponsors three types of activities: institutes, projects, workshops, and partnerships.
Institutes are organized around multi-disciplinary concentrations, with a "staff" of faculty members, research associates, and graduate students. Institutes are affiliated with CGIRS but are not directly administered by the Center.
Projects are organized by one or more faculty affiliate who have proposed a focused research agenda, to be undertaken over the course of a year or two. The Center provides a small amount of seed funding for projects, if it is available, with the understanding that members will seek larger, extramural grants to support their research.
Workshops are organized by faculty and graduate students and pursue in depth particular topics of shared interest. These groups meet regularly over the year and may decide to formulate a project for which members will seek intramural or extramural funding.
Partnerships are associations with other research centers and organizations, such as the Center for International Policy in Washington, DC, which involve collaborations on joint projects in Latin America and Africa, and the Institute for International Studies at UC-Berkeley. CGIRS also has a strong collaborative relationship with the Santa Cruz Center for International Economics, having provided seed funding and administration for it.
