China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations
The China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR; Chinese: 中国 现代 国际 关系 研究院; Pinyin: Zhōngguó Xiandai guoji Guanxi Yánjiūyuàn) are a network of research institutes and are among China's largest, oldest and most influential civil research institutes for international studies. Your seat is in Beijing . The CICIR are affiliated with the Ministry of State Security and are monitored by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China .
The CICIR has around 400 employees, including 150 senior research fellows . They consist of eleven departments with different regional and functional orientations, two research areas with a focus on the Korean Peninsula and Central Asia, and eight research centers. The institute publishes the journal Contemporary International Relations (Xiandai Guoji Guanxi) .
history
The origins of the organization go back to the Communist Party's intelligence operations during the Chinese Civil War and the Second Sino- Japanese War (1937–1945). Specifically, these early intelligence operations targeted the US Dixie Mission and the Soviet presence at Communist Party bases in Yan'an during the 1940s.
In 1964, then Prime Minister Zhou Enlai ordered the establishment of several colleges and university departments to focus on international affairs. A number of ministries, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of State Security (China) , set up their own think tanks and research institutes under the decree . A year later (1965) the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations was founded. At the time, it was under the Foreign Affairs Leadership Group of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and served a number of senior Communist Party officials. The CICIR was the only international relations institute or university in China that did not close during the turbulent years of the Cultural Revolution .
In 1980, under the Deng Xiaoping reforms and openings to the outside world , this institute was named an "open" institution and empowered to contact and work with foreigners to improve intelligence gathering. In 1981, CICIR began publishing Xiandai Guoji Guanxi (Contemporary International Relations). From 1986 the magazine was published quarterly, and has been published monthly since 1993.
Institutional and personal links
CICIR is primarily associated with the Ministry of State Security, although domestic Chinese media rarely acknowledge this fact.
In 1983 the institute was placed under the bureaucratic administration of the newly created Ministry of State Security. Reassigned to the Central Committee of the Communist Party in 1999 , but maintained strong organizational ties with the Ministry of State Security and the Foreign Affairs Leadership Group. In 2009 the Xinhua news agency published the article "CICIR 'subordinates' to the Ministry of State Security" in the party magazine Liaowang . The precise institutional position of the CICIR has been hotly contested among Hong Kong's media. The question was whether it was actually the research arm of the Ministry of State Security for intelligence investigations, or whether it was simply providing "intelligence research and analysis" for this ministry.
David Shambaugh , director of the China Policy Program at George Washington University , described China's oldest international think tank as a "Soviet-style news organ" because CICIR's primary consumer of intelligence is the Foreign Affairs Leadership Group and the Institute is largely funded by the Department of State Security .
In 2003 the institute changed its name from China Institute of International Relations to China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations.
A few cases have emerged in which CICIR researchers have traveled abroad to collect intelligence and pass it on to the Ministry of State Security. Gong Uichang , Minister for State Security since 2007, served as President of the Institute from 1990–1993. According to David Shambaugh, CICIR executives "all had long and shadowy careers in Chinese intelligence" in common.
Focus, functions, influence
Although the research activities of the CICIR basically encompass all international affairs, its focus is on the USA and the relations between the USA and China.
CICIR's activities include providing government agencies with reports, publishing research results in scientific journals, carrying out projects on behalf of the government of the People's Republic of China, carrying out joint research projects with domestic and foreign institutions, promoting academic exchange and offering courses for master's and doctoral students .
Stratfor Global Intelligence assigned the CICIR to the eighth office of the Ministry of State Security (China's main intelligence agency), which informs the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China through intelligence reports. The CICIR does not say much about the relationship with the Chinese government, however, and Chinese media reports rarely confirm CICIR's association with the regime.
The institutes had significant influence on foreign policy decision-making processes in China, partly due to the close organizational proximity to the Communist Party's Central Committee, the Foreign Affairs Leadership Group, the Foreign Affairs Office and the Ministry of State Security. Furthermore, the importance of the institute for foreign policy decision-making processes is strengthened by the large number of research staff and their ability to quickly analyze the results of intelligence investigations. This influence, however, has been declining since the mid-1990s, coinciding with the death or retirement of some of its leading researchers and the increasing influence of the State Department on foreign policy decisions.
Institutes and departments
The organization comprises eleven different research institutes, each with their own regional or functional focus:
- Institute for Russian Studies
- Institute for American Studies
- Institute for Latin American Studies
- Institute for European Studies
- Institute for Japanese Studies
- Institute for South and Southeast Asia Studies
- Institute for West Asian and African Studies
- Institute for Information and Social Development Studies
- Institute for Security and Gun Control Studies
- Institute for World Political Studies
- Institute for World Economic Studies
The organization has two research departments that are under the direct control of the CICIR executives:
- Korean Peninsula Research Department
- Department of Central Asian Studies
The CICIR also includes eight research centers:
- Center for Studies on Hong Kong and Macau
- Center for Ethnic and Religious Studies
- Center for Globalization Studies
- Center for Studies on Taiwan
- Counter Terrorism Center
- Center for Crisis Management Studies
- Center for Economic Security Studies
- Center for Marine Strategy Studies
See also
- University of International Relations (English)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g David Shambaugh: China's International Relations Think Tanks: Evolving Structure and Process. In: The China Quarterly. Vol. 171, September 1, 2002, pp. 575-596, accessed November 9, 2016.
- ↑ Michael D. Swaine: The role of the Chinese military in national security policymaking. National Defense Research Institute, 1998, accessed November 9, 2016.
- ↑ a b China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations ( Memento from January 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), January 13, 2011, accessed on November 9, 2016
- ^ A b Gerald Chan: International Studies in China: An Annotated Bibliography. Nova Science Publishers, New York 1998, ISBN 1-56072-588-5 , accessed November 9, 2016
- ↑ Xuanli Liao: Chinese Foreign Policy Think Tanks and China's Policy Towards Japan. Chinese University Press, 2006, ISBN 962-996-266-7 , accessed November 9, 2016
- ↑ a b c d e f g Profile of MSS-Affiliated PRC Foreign Policy Think Tank CICIR. Open Source Center Report, August 25, 2011, accessed November 9, 2016
- ^ Stratfor Global Intelligence, Ministry of State Security organization chart. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Stratfor Enterprises, March 24, 2010, accessed November 9, 2016
