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This website provides a portal to all faculty, degree programs, research centers, and activities at UCI with an international or global focus.

UC Irvine Photo Located in a dynamic and transnational part of Southern California, with world renowned faculty, a variety of degree options and a uniquely interdisciplinary campus, UC Irvine is poised to be a leader in research and education on global issues.

The Center for Research on International and Global Studies (RIGS) provides this website as part of its mission to promote research on the interactions of politics, economics, societies, cultures and history in global and international affairs.

Featured News

  • RIGS announces funding for two collaborative research projects: Altruistic Generosity: an international study of its Origins and Political Importance by Kristin Monroe (political science), David Easton (political science) and Mahtab Jafari (pharmacology) and Global City Formation in China by David Smith (sociology) and Jeffrey Wasserstrom (history)

  • Upcoming Events

    2/8/2010
    U.S. Israel Relations from a Political and Personal Perspective
    2/10/2010
    A Discussion with Counterterrorism and Humanitarian Law Specialist Daniel Taub
    2/12/2010
    Modeling Conflict and Its Governance
    2/19/2010
    Speak, Write, Paint: Colonial Scripts and Indigenous Literacies in Latin America
    2/23/2010
    How Transnational Families, Networks & Remittances Shape Decisions to Stay or Go

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