Centre for International Studies
Address: CERI – UMR 7050, 56, rue Jacob, 75006 Paris, France
Website: http://www.sciencespo.fr/ceri/en/homepage
Founded at Sciences Po in 1952, the Centre for International Studies (CERI) is today France’s principal research center dedicated to the study of international/transnational relations and regional area studies. The Centre has the status of joint research entity (UMR 7050) under the combined auspices of Sciences Po and the CNRS, since 2002. CERI currently comprises 51 permanent faculty members. It also hosts nearly 80 doctoral students in IR and area studies from the Sciences Po Doctoral School.
CERI’s research agenda is based on the conviction that the study of the globalized world must proceed through a two-pronged approach: area studies and transnational relations. The Centre brings together scholars from several social science disciplines, among which political science is the best represented, along with sociology, anthropology, history and economics. A dozen or so of the Centre’s scholars are specialists of international relations in the strict sense. In area studies, the Centre is particularly strong in North Africa and the Middle East, Latin America, the Far East, South Asia, West Africa and the African Great Lakes Region. The Centre’s approach to area studies emphasizes fieldwork, empirical and comparative approaches, and the study of rare languages.
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