Our Centers

Research Centers

FSI’s research centers and programs serve as the foundation for everything we do. Each focuses on a different topic within international studies, from cybersecurity to global health, and addresses real-world problems with rigorous analysis.

CDDRL

The Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law seeks to understand and advance the conditions for just, democratic, and sustainable development around the world. Director: Kathryn Stoner

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FSE

The Center on Food Security and the Environment addresses critical global issues of hunger, poverty and environmental degradation. Director: David Lobell

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CISAC

The Center for International Security and Cooperation is Stanford University’s hub for researchers tackling some of the world's most pressing security and international cooperation issues. Co-directors: Rod Ewing and Scott Sagan

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TEC

The Europe Center at Stanford University provides an interdisciplinary platform for scholarship on the histories, cultures, institutions, and people of Europe. Director: Anna Grzymala-Busse

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SHP

Stanford Health Policy studies critical global health problems with the goal of understanding how policies, programs and interventions can improve health. Director: Douglas Owens

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APARC

The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center studies contemporary Asia, with a focus on scholarship, business, and government. Director: Gi-Wook Shin

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CYBER

The Cyber Policy Center is Stanford University's premier center for the interdisciplinary study of issues at the nexus of technology, governance and public policy. Co-Directors: Nathaniel Persily and Jeff Hancock

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SCCEI

The Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions is Stanford’s home for empirical, multidisciplinary research on China’s economy. Co-directors: Hongbin Li and Scott Rozelle

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GKC

The Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation trains and connects the next generation of national security innovators with the U.S. Government to solve the world's most intractable challenges. Director: Joe Felter

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Global Populism

The Global Populism project seeks to examine the diversity of global populisms, and the causes behind their rise. It also seeks to explain the historical processes that underlie populist politics, through an analysis of both domestic and international factors, and deploying a variety of methods. It has four broad themes: the diversity of populisms, the context of party competition, the role of immigration, and the role of international linkages in fomenting populism.

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Program on Energy and Sustainable Development

The Program on Energy and Sustainable Development (PESD) is an international, interdisciplinary program that draws on the fields of economics, political science, law, and management to investigate how real energy markets work. Directed by Frank Wolak, the Holbrook Working Professor of Commodity Price Studies in Economics, PESD studies how political and regulatory processes lead to outcomes that are more costly and less effective than they could be.

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Stanford Center at Peking University

The Stanford Center at Peking University is the university's headquarters for faculty and students engaged in research, teaching, training and outreach activities in China. FSI senior fellow Jean Oi, the William Haas Professor of Chinese Politics and the director of Shorenstein APARC's China Program, serves as the Lee Kau Shee Director of SCPKU.

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Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education

The Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education serves as a bridge between Stanford University and K-12 schools and community colleges by developing multidisciplinary curriculum materials on international themes. Under the leadership of director Gary Mukai, SPICE draws upon FSI research to enhance secondary education curricula on a variety of topics.

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Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies

The Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies provides an intensive 10-month training program in advanced Japanese for a select number of undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate students.

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Visiting Fellows in Israel Studies

Visiting Fellows in Israel Studies aims to foster cross-disciplinary analysis of Israel and its unique position as a regional influence and geopolitical actor. The program appoints an Israel-based scholar to serve as a recurrent visiting fellow at FSI for a period of three years. The fellow will teach at least one course during the quarter of the visit on some aspect of Israel’s politics, society, economy, modern history, technological development and/or regional or international relations, as well advise students and collaborate with faculty interested in Israel and the Middle East.

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