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| CEDES | |
|---|---|
| Name | CEDES |
| Established | 1960s |
| Headquarters | Geneva |
| Type | Research institute |
| Fields | Political science; Sociology; History; International relations |
CEDES is a research institute focused on the study of political, social and historical phenomena in Europe and Latin America, founded in the 1960s and based in Geneva. It has produced sustained work on electoral movements, party systems, social movements and diplomatic history, engaging with scholars, policy-makers and institutions across continents. The institute's activities span archival research, quantitative analysis, oral history and public events, contributing to debates involving international organizations, universities and national academies.
CEDES was founded amid Cold War scholarly networks involving figures associated with University of Geneva, Oxford University, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, École normale supérieure, Harvard University and Columbia University. Early projects intersected with research agendas of United Nations agencies, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development missions and bilateral cultural institutes such as the British Council and the Goethe-Institut. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s CEDES researchers engaged with comparative studies that referenced cases like Spain under Franco, Argentina during the military junta, Chile under Augusto Pinochet, and transitions observed in Portugal after the Carnation Revolution. In the 1990s the institute expanded collaborations to include scholars linked to European Union institutions, the Council of Europe, World Bank social policy teams and Latin American universities such as Universidad de Buenos Aires and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Recent decades saw projects resonating with discussions connected to NATO, International Criminal Court, and regional bodies such as Mercosur.
CEDES is organized into thematic units that mirror disciplinary affiliations found at University of Paris, King's College London, University of California, Berkeley and Sciences Po. Typical units include comparative politics, social history, migration studies and development studies; leadership roles have been occupied by scholars previously associated with Princeton University, Yale University and Brown University. Governance involves a board with representatives from national research councils like Conseil national de la recherche scientifique-style bodies, university faculties, and cultural attachés from embassies such as those of France, Switzerland and Argentina. The institute houses an archive and library with collections complementing holdings at institutions like the Bibliothèque nationale de France, British Library and Library of Congress. Administrative practices reflect standards promoted by networks such as the European Science Foundation and professional associations including International Political Science Association.
CEDES conducts thematic research programs that intersect with work produced at Institute for Advanced Study, Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Chatham House. Projects have included electoral studies referencing cases like France, Italy, Germany, Brazil and Mexico; labor and social movement research engaging with histories of Confederación General del Trabajo (Argentina), CGT (France), and trade unionism in Spain. The institute runs fieldwork campaigns, oral history projects comparing experiences under authoritarian regimes such as Chile and Argentina, and longitudinal surveys borrowing methodologies used by teams at Institute for Social Research (Germany) and Rutgers University. CEDES hosts conferences attended by scholars from Universidad de Chile, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Universidad de São Paulo and Universidad de Salamanca, and organizes public seminars with participation from diplomats connected to Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations, officials from European Commission directorates, and human rights advocates from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
The institute publishes working papers, monographs and edited volumes in French, Spanish and English, comparable to output produced by Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge and editorial series affiliated with Palgrave Macmillan. CEDES outputs include case studies on transitional justice referencing institutions like the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, policy briefs for agencies such as the United Nations Development Programme and scholarly articles in journals akin to American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Latin American Studies and European Journal of Political Research. The institute also curates digital archives, data sets used in comparative work similar to projects at GESIS and ICPSR, and issues newsletters distributed to partner universities including University of Oxford, Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
CEDES partners with a wide array of academic and policy organizations including research centers at London School of Economics, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Scuola Normale Superiore and Instituto Torcuato Di Tella. It has cooperated on grants with funding bodies like the European Research Council, Horizon 2020 consortia, Ford Foundation programs and national foundations such as the Swiss National Science Foundation. Joint initiatives have linked CEDES to municipal archives in Geneva, national archives in Argentina and Chile, and university consortia including Universidad de la República (Uruguay) and Centro de Estudios Martianos.
CEDES's scholarship has influenced policy debates at institutions such as Inter-American Development Bank, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and national ministries of culture and justice in Argentina and Chile. Critics have argued that collaborations with governmental actors risk politicizing research, drawing comparisons with controversies involving think tanks like Heritage Foundation and Center for Strategic and International Studies; other critiques echo broader debates raised about research neutrality in literature discussing funding bias and institutional capture as noted in analyses involving Transparency International and watchdog groups. Defenders point to peer-reviewed outputs published alongside work by scholars at Princeton and Columbia as evidence of methodological rigor.
Category:Research institutes