The Center for International Studies (CIS) at the University of Southern California is deeply committed to expanding and refining an academic and practitioner understanding of international relations, globalization, cooperation, and conflict. Established in 1986, CIS brings together faculty and students from throughout the university to focus on the primary areas of academic inquiry for the 21st century: the economic, social, psychological, political, historical and geographic causes and effects of increased flows of goods, money, services, ideas, and culture across international borders. CIS also endeavors to broaden the scope and influence of our multidisciplinary research partnerships, and to develop new and innovative connections with both traditional and non-traditional joint research agendas. In sum, CIS is striving to become the hub for international programming at USC.