The Center for Diplomatic and Strategic Studies (French: Centre d'Études Diplomatiques et Stratégiques, CEDS) is an accredited postgraduate school and a think tank in diplomacy and international relations headquartered in Paris.
CEDS is the graduate and doctoral school of the Écoles des hautes études internationales et politiques (HEI-HEP), founded in 1899 by Émile Durkheim, Charles Seignobos, and Romain Rolland.
[5] Along with the Institut français, the CEDS is a de facto lever of the French diplomatic influence (Action française à l'étranger).
[6] It received French politician Jack Lang on September 25, 2009 for the inauguration of a Curriculum in International Relations delivered jointly with the Institut français à Athènes.
Most of the military faculty of the CEDS also comes from the French Institut des hautes études de défense nationale.