Center for Comparative and International Studies
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The Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS) is a political science research institute founded in 1997 and based in Zürich. It is joint initiative between the institute of political science of the University of Zurich and the political science chairs of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. The director of the institute is Frank Schimmelfennig, Professor of European Politics. The staff (as of 2016) is 170.
Research at CIS focuses on five themes: democracy, markets and politics, political violence, sustainable development and security studies.[1]