Founded in 1960, the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies(SIIS) is a government-affiliated high-caliber think tank dedicated to informing government decision-making by conducting policy-oriented studies in world politics, economics, foreign policy, and international security. SIIS maintains intensive and extensive exchanges and cooperation with research institutions at home and abroad, bolstering China’s international influence and soft power.
SIIS boasts an authorized size of 106 full-time
research fellows and staff, including 60% senior fellows. SIIS was ranked one
of the top ten Chinese think tanks In 2006, and one of the top ten global think
tanks (non-American) in 2008. SIIS comprises six institutes and six research
centers, namely, the institute for global governance studies, the institute for
foreign policy studies, the institute for world economic studies, the institute
for international strategic studies, the institute for comparative politics and
public policy, the institute for Taiwan, Hong Kong& Macao Studies, the
center for American studies, the center for Asia-Pacific Studies, the center
for Russian and Central Asian Studies, the center for West Asia and Africa
studies, the center for European studies, and the center for maritime and polar
studies. SIIS has also set up six in-house research platforms, i.e., the
research base on people’s diplomacy of Shanghai, center for the study of
Chinese diplomatic theory and practice, center for world politics and political
parties, center for China-South Asia cooperation, center for BRI and Shanghai
studies, and center for international cyber governance. In addition, SIIS is an
institutional member of the Shanghai International Strategic Studies
Association and the Shanghai International Relations Association.
Global Review (bimonthly, Chinese) and the China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies are the two flagship journals of SIIS and have become a prestigious academic platform for domestic and international scholarship.
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