This cluster emphasizes macro-sociological comparisons among the world's leading industrial and developing nations, paying special attention to differences within and among capitalist and socialist nations. This type of analysis is especially effective when students are knowledgeable about two or more regions and have the requisite language skills to do work in these regions. Faculty in the department currently specialize in comparative studies involving Japan, China, India, Korea, Russia, the major western European countries, and Latin America. Students with comparative interests also work with faculty affiliated with East Asian, European, Russian Studies, Near East, and Latin American programs, and are often supported with funds from the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. Princeton also maintains special exchange arrangements with such institutions as Science Po in Paris. Students are eligible to participate in the Global Network on Inequality, a set of research institutions in Western Europe and Japan that have agreed to accept our doctoral students for research internships and whose faculty visit our campus periodically.