The Center for International Relations and Policy is a member of the University of California’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. The head of the Center is Professor Richard Rosecrance. The Center serves not only as a member site for IGCC but also as an independent research center for students and scholars interested in a broad array of IR-based policy questions. To this end the Center has initiated a working paper series to encourage early stage discussion of scholars’ work and to allow for the exchange of ideas that might eventually influence policy makers across the globe.