Founded in 1989, the Peter D. Watson Center promotes state of the art research on the causes of international conflict and cooperation by

• Funding faculty and student research.
• Disseminating research.
• Providing a rich intellectual environment for its scholars.

Current and past members of the Center have included faculty and students from Economics, History, Philosophy, Political Science, and Psychology, with interests in a broad range of topics in international security and political economy. The Center encourages a diverse repertoire of theoretical and empirical approaches, including historical accounts, case study analysis, game theoretic modeling, and advanced statistical techniques.