Cambridge has a long and
distinctive tradition in the study of politics and international
relations with particular emphasis, going back over a century, on
historical, legal, economic and philosophical
approaches to the study of political theory and international politics.
The establishment of the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) in January 2009 provides a new institutional focus at Cambridge for teaching and research on politics in all its dimensions; international and comparative, theoretical and empirical, abstract and practical.
The Department offers a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. It has particular research strengths in international politics, political economy, comparative politics and political thought, and has one long-established research centre, the Centre of International Studies, and two new Centres, the Centre of Governance and Human Rights, and the Cambridge Centre of Political Thought, which is run jointly with History.
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News
- CIS publication listed in '100 Books for Global Thinkers' 18/12/2009 POLIS to launch new Centre of Governance and Human Rights on 18 November 01/11/2009 POLIS Launch Lecture 05/05/2009
The Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) was formally launched on 5 May Lecture Text
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