The Center for Strategic Studies (CSS) was established in 1984 as an academic unit of the University of Jordan concerned mainly with research in the fields of regional conflicts, international relations and security. As a result of the country’s democratization process that started in 1989, the center has expanded its scope of activities to include planning and research in such new fields as democracy, political pluralism, development, the economy and the environment.
Over the past few years, the CSS has organized numerous conferences, seminars and workshops. In addition it has also conducted several opinion polls aimed at providing researchers and decision-makers with material and data that would have been unavailable through other means.
It has three research units:
- Public Opinion Polling Unit
- Economic Unit
- Environment Unit
The CSS also runs an ongoing “Jordanian-Palestinian Relations” research project.
WWW site includes descriptions of the units and details of their (mainly Arabic) publications, some have substantial summaries available online.