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This research program is co-sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School and the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice. Innovations for Successful Societies chronicles the challenges reform leaders face in serving publics better and helps share solutions across boundaries. A central aim is to identify strategies that can help reform leaders escape the governance traps that often subvert economic and political turnarounds. The program also focuses on innovative ways to solve principal-agent problems that arise in the context of resource scarcity and insecurity. ISS staff and Ph.D. affiliates develop operationally detailed, interview-based case studies and analyses. The also program also hosts an oral history project that highlights the experiences and reflections of reformers worldwide. Director: Jennifer Widner
The Center for International Security Studies (CISS) will provide a home for the study and debate of national and international security and will support a variety of educational, research, enrichment, and outreach activities with the intent of generating new knowledge on issues of fundamental importance and educating the next generation of strategic thinkers and decision makers. It will also seek to establish research and policy links with other institutions around the world. Co-directors: Aaron L. Friedberg and G. John Ikenberry
The Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies is dedicated to training and research on the effects of public policies on the arts and culture. Research affiliates of the center have addressed such topics as cultural development and urban renewal, public participation in the arts, public conflicts over art and culture, and the impact on the arts of digital technologies and their implications for the legal treatment of intellectual property. Director: Stan Katz