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The Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) is the main center within Princeton University for international studies and area studies. The Institute focuses on an interdisciplinarity approach and its associated faculty is drawn from more than 150 professors and other scholars from more than 25 different departments within Princeton. Its director is political scientist Mark R. Beissinger.
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History
The institute was formed in 2003 as the result of a merger between the Center of International Studies, a research center that had existed since 1951, and the Council on Regional Studies, which had been an interdepartmental organization of regional study programs. University President Shirley M. Tilghman said that, "This new institute will build on two long-established areas of strength at Princeton to bring an even greater global perspective to teaching and research at this University". The first director of the new institute was Latin American studies scholar Miguel Angel Centeno.
Programs
The institute sponsors the World Politics journal.