IGCC Campus Affiliates

IGCC supports campus programs housed within affiliated institutions on all ten of the University of California campuses. Each program has unique characteristics and resources, and the directors and staff of the campus program offices provide essential links to the intellectual resources of the UC system while serving their local campus constituencies.

Basic information and links to the ten IGCC Campus Programs are given below. Contact information for each may be found in the Campus Affiliates Directory.

UC Berkeley
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UCLA
UC Merced

The Institute of International Studies (IIS) promotes interdisciplinary research in international, comparative, and policy studies on the Berkeley campus. Established in 1955 and now approaching its 50th anniversary, the Institute focuses today on the following intellectual themes:

• Peace and global security in the twenty-first century
• Environment, demography, and sustainability
• Globalization, development, and human rights
• Technological change and and the transformation of the global economy

IIS is led by Director Steve Weber and Executive Director Harry Kreisler.

UC DAVIS Institute of Governmental Affairs

The Institute of Governmental Affairs (IGA) supports social science research, graduate student training, public affairs programming, and outreach activities at UC Davis. IGA houses a number of formal research programs and enjoys participation from more than sixty faculty in ten campus departments. IGA also serves as a campus home for visiting scholars from around the world. IGA staff members provide specialized services in grant advising, preparation, and administration; library and data services; social science computing, programming, and statistical consulting; event coordination; and much more.

Professor Alan Olmstead of the Department of Economics is the director of IGA, which serves as the UC Davis liaison to two system-wide programs: IGCC, and the All-UC Group in Economic History.

UC IRVINE Global Peace and Conflict Studies Program

The Program for Global Peace and Conflict Studies (GPACS) is dedicated to research, teaching, and public service in the study of international conflict and conflict resolution. Starting informally in 1983 with a handful of faculty and a modest appropriation from IGCC, GPACS has grown into a working association of over 40 professors that sponsors an interdisciplinary undergraduate minor, an Irvine campus research unit (IRU), a lively series of guest lecturers, and a variety of other activities. GPACS draws faculty from the Schools of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Social Ecology, as well as Engineering, Physical Sciences, Biological Sciences, and the Graduate School of Management.

Professor Cecelia Lynch of the Department of Political Science is the program's director.

UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations

The Burkle Center for International Relations (BCIR) is a unit within the UCLA International Institute. BCIR was formed in the mid 1970s to analyze strategic problems of the deterrent relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union. It later focused on the destabilizing consequences of the spread of nuclear weapons. In the aftermath of the Cold War, the Center began to include economic as well as security issues. The Center fosters research, teaching, scholarships, public outreach and service on the contemporary world and the role of the United States in global security, military, political, social and economic affairs.

BCIR is led by Director Kal Raustiala, professor at both the UCLA School of Law and the Program on Global Studies.

UC MERCED Program on Global Peace and Security Issues (GPSI)

The graduate program on Global Peace and Security Issues (GPSI, or Gypsy”) is a uniquely multidisciplinary collaboration between UC Merced faculty in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities with experts doing unclassified research into the traditional and non-traditional dimensions of national and international security at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Beginning in spring 2007, the program will offer a Masters in Global Peace and Security Issues for students seeking academic expertise as well as practical experience in the following fields:

• New elements of security in the post-Cold War world, including economic competitiveness, energy self-sufficiency, cyberthreats and other disruptive technologies, and the regional as well as national impact of population growth and immigration.
• Biosecurity, including the threat of emerging pathogens and infectious diseases resulting from global migration and climate change.
• Intelligence history and policy decision-making in theory and practice.
• Risk and emergency management, including the use of remote sensing technologies and computer simulation in dealing with disaster.

The GPSI Masters program is designed for students who intend to make a career with state or federal agencies, or in any private sector, non-government, or non-profit organization concerned with ongoing risk assessment and mitigation.

GPSI is led by Gregg Herken, professor of history and one of UC Merced's founding faculty members.

UC RIVERSIDE Program on Global Studies

The Program on Global Studies (PoGS) was founded in 2001. PoGS is an interdisciplinary research and education initiative, co-directed by Juliann Allison (Department of Political Science) and Christopher Chase-Dunn (Department of Sociology).

PoGS involves humanists as well as biological, social and physical scientists at UC Riverside in research and education on global issues. PoGS is organizing a speaker series and colloquium seminar on “Global Institutions and Transnational Social Movements.”

In addition, POGS intends to support graduate and undergraduate research through providing funding for research assistantships and student conference participation. PoGS is participating in an effort to establish an undergraduate major in Global Studies chaired by Professor of History (and IGCC Steering Committee Member) Lynda Bell.

UC SAN DIEGO Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies

The Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS) was created in 2001 to promote research on international, comparative, and cross-regional topics. Building on the substantial existing strengths of UCSD in international studies, IICAS coordinates and supports the research of faculty in departments, area studies programs, and the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. It is closely associated with undergraduate and graduate education in international studies, including Eleanor Roosevelt College and the international studies major, whose program offices are housed with the Institute.

IICAS has three principal roles. First, it serves as a research catalyst, fostering and incubating cross-area research groups and projects. Second, IICAS coordinates and provides services for existing and new international and area studies programs in development and events planning and coordination. Third, the IICAS Director and Advisory Committee advise the Senior Vice Chancellor on campus priorities and appointments in international studies.

Professor Gershon Shafir is the director of IICAS.

UC SAN FRANCISCO Global Health Sciences

Diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, and AIDS compromise the health and tax the resources of millions of people in developing countries. UCSF Global Health Sciences strives to lift this burden. Working in partnership with institutions around the world, it focuses its expertise in the health, biological, social, and policy sciences on a range of diseases that threaten this and future generations. Collaborative training and research programs to build infrastructure and develop a trained workforce including leaders in science and medicine are the initial programs through which the mission is being implemented.

Professor Vincanne Adams serves as project director for the UC San Francisco Program on Global Health Diplomacy. She is a professor of medical anthropology in the Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine.

UC SANTA BARBARA Global Peace and Security Program

The Global Peace and Security (GPS) Program was established at UCSB in 1982 as part of a system-wide effort to develop peace and security studies. Its programs are supported in part by IGCC. With IGCC funds allocated yearly, it provides speakers and administrative, program, and classroom support. Matching funds from the College of Letters and Science have allowed GPS to offer courses on global conflict and cooperation.

GPS is under the leadership of Professor Mark Juergensmeyer, director of Global and International Studies and professor of sociology.

UC SANTA CRUZ Center for Global, International, and Regional Studies

The end of the Cold War has called into question many of the assumptions underlying the national security and foreign policies of countries, societies and communities. Issues never before considered relevant to security are now seen as critical policy problems; others have declined in political salience but remain important. The IGCC-UCSC Campus Program, established in 1982 as the Nuclear Policy Program, is the UCSC campus program of IGCC. The IGCC-UCSC Campus Program is dedicated to the fostering of scholarly research and public education on both old and new aspects of security, in a broadly-defined sense. The program tries to foster an intellectual atmosphere in which new projects and creative approaches to global problems and issues can be explored.

IGCC-UCSC Campus Program is co-directed by Professors Eleanora Pasotti and Roger Schoenman of the Politics Department.