Department for China's Regional and Global Strategy Studies

At January 2011, with the approval of the Personnel Bureau, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Institute of Asia-pacific Studies CASS newly established the Department for China's Strategies to Neighboring Countries. On December 29, 2011, with the founding of National Institute of International Strategy, CASS (NIIS, CASS), the Department for China's Strategies to Neighboring Countries was renamed as the Department for China's Regional and Global Strategy Studies.
The renamed Department is mainly designed to adopt interdisciplinary approaches to target the new changes in China’s political, economic and security environment in the process of China’s rise, as well as those strategic choices that China has made which have facilitated the evolution of China’s surrounding environment in favor of China’s national interests. The Vision of the Department for China's Regional and Global Strategy Studies is to contribute constructively to the making of China’s IR theory and to provide inspiring academic feedbacks and sound research support for China’s decision-making process.
The strategic environment with Neighboring Countries is influential to a country’s development. With rapid growth of China’s economic strength and sharp rise of its international status, the relationship between China and its neighboring countries has entered a new phase of evolving. Due to the fact that there are very few institutions specializing in China’s regional strategies to its neighboring countries and its implications, there exists huge gap between market demands and academic research supplies. In this regard, the establishment of the Department for China's Regional and Global Strategy Studies is expected to make contributions to the related IR theoretical innovations as well as to satisfying the needs of research fruits on the changes of China’s strategic environment with neighboring countries and its strategic choices.

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