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Event Review | The Seminar on the New Book Ecological Institutionalism in Politics was successfully held
On March 29, 2026, the Seminar on the New Book Ecological Institutionalism in Politics was successfully held at Renmin University of China (Zhongguancun Campus). The seminar was hosted by Chenghai Institute of Global Development and Security. It invited experts from universities including Peking University, Renmin University of China, Tsinghua University, Beijing Foreign Studies University, University of International Business and Economics, and Peking University Press, to discuss the academic contributions, policy values and development prospects of "ecological institutionalism", focusing on such issues as discourse system, disciplinary development and theoretical exploration. Huang Yuxing, Professor of the School of International Relations at Renmin University of China moderated the seminar.
Upcoming Event | Seminar on the New Book The Creative Transformation of Political Unification: A New Theory of China's Modern State-Building
The seminar on the new book The Creative Transformation of Political Unification: A New Theory of China's Modern State-Building will be held on April 2, 2026, at Renmin University of China (Zhongguancun Campus).
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Call for Papers for the "7th Forum on the Knowledge System of Chinese Political Science"
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Second Announcement for the 1st "World Political Science" Workshop 2025
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12 2026.01
World Political Theory
World Political Theory was awarded the 9th Higher Education Outstanding Research Achievement Award (Humanities and Social Sciences) by the Ministry of Education.
Date：2026.01.12
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12 2026.01
Series on the Autonomous Knowledge of Historical Political Science and Chinese Political Science
Academic research is a "project of patience". Since the establishment of the Center for Historical Political Science at the School of International Studies, Renmin University of China in 2019, this series represents the first batch of achievements under the Series on the Autonomous Knowledge of Historical Political Science and Chinese Political Science. It aims to make a substantive contribution in terms of methodology to the construction of an autonomous knowledge system for Chinese political science.
Date：2026.01.12
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11 2025.12
2024 Annual Report on Anglophone Scholarship on Chinese Governance and Foreign Policy
To actively advance the construction of China's autonomous knowledge system of political science, and in particular to enhance the capacity of Chinese political science to engage in critical dialogue with mainstream Western political science theories, the Data Science Research Center (Arts Laboratory) of the School of International Studies at Renmin University of China launched and hosted the project 2024 Annual Report on Anglophone Scholarship on Chinese Governance and Foreign Policy (hereinafter referred to as the 2024 Annual Report), upon the initiative and support of Chenghai Institute of Global Development and Security at Renmin University of China.
The project team conducted a panoramic review of mainstream English-language academic journals spanning political science, sociology, economics, international relations, international security, and area studies (including China studies and Asian studies). It collected all academic papers published in these journals throughout 2024 that addressed issues related to China’s governance and diplomacy. In parallel, the team also compiled all academic monographs relevant to China’s governance and diplomacy published in 2024 by leading academic and commercial publishers in the English-speaking academic community.
Taking the collected English-language papers and monographs as its core data, the 2024 Annual Report systematically mapped the thematic distribution of English-language research on China's governance and diplomacy in 2024, along with the key findings and conclusions of such research. Subsequently, under the guidance of six full-time faculty members, ten master's and doctoral students specializing in Chinese politics, Chinese and foreign political systems, diplomacy, and international relations wrote literature reviews and commentaries on the most prominent research themes, thus completing the core content of the 2024 Annual Report.Date：2025.12.11
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11 2025.12
Chenghai Global Security Report 2025: Assessment of China's Manufacturing Power Strategy and National Security
This report systematically interprets the dynamic correlation between China's progress toward becoming a manufacturing power and national security from three theoretical perspectives: the price revolution, weaponized interdependence, and the security dilemma.
The price revolution serves as the core theoretical perspective of this report. It refers to the significant price decline of manufactured goods led by China. At the domestic level, this transformation has enhanced national governance capacity, reduced the risk of China’s manufacturing sector being subject to "chokepoint" constraints, and effectively consolidated the foundation of national security. At the international level, this transformation has provided affordable manufactured goods to developing countries, strengthening their national security capabilities; meanwhile, it has also exacerbated the international security challenges faced by China.
Both weaponized interdependence and the security dilemma focus on the changes in the international security landscape triggered by China’s endeavor to build itself into a manufacturing power. The former means that the upgrading and rise of China’s manufacturing sector have reduced the risk of Western countries using interdependence as a "weapon" to suppress China, but at the same time, it has also made Western countries worry that China might "weaponize" their dependence on China, prompting them to intensify containment measures against China. The latter refers to the fact that China’s measures to strengthen its own security have aroused anxiety among Western countries, prompting them to introduce containment measures, which in turn have forced China to increase investment in independent innovation, further fueling the sense of insecurity among Western countries.Date：2025.12.11
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11 2025.12
Chenghai Global Development Report 2025: Forging and Sustaining World Leadership: Degree of Organization in the Rise and Decline of Nations
The rise and fall of nations is a compulsory course that world-leading powers can never afford to neglect. It’s observed that the relations between major powers, while contested on a global scale, are ultimately decided by domestic governance.
Riding on the momentum of victory in the Cold War and coupled with the dominance of the new institutional economics over the world’s intellectual market, Western countries have habitually viewed the rise and fall of nations through an institutionalist lens and affixed ideological labels to the systems of various countries. However, this approach is incapable of solving the mystery of "social vitality" that dictates the rise and fall of nations.
Unlocking the "black box" of national rise and fall requires a new research unit. In contrast to the highly ideological institutionalist interpretations, the research unit of organizational degree derived from the organizationalist approach is far more capable of explaining the disparities in national development.
Organizational degree is an objective entity that exists at the "actual existence" level. In the history of nations, the evolution of human civilization has been a process advancing from non-organization to organization, from simple organization to complex organization, and from low organizational degree to high organizational degree. What Western political science refers to as modernization is essentially a high-organization process featuring the centralization of public authority from polycentrism to monocentrism, with nation-building serving as a key milestone in this modernization drive.
Therefore, the objective "organizationalism" aligns more closely with historical reality than the subjective "institutionalism", and organizational degree is naturally a research unit that allows for both qualitative and quantitative analysis. Based on this newly identified research unit of organizational degree, this study conducts macro-comparisons of grand history and macro-structures, and its core arguments are as follows.Date：2025.12.11
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23 2026.01
Recovering the "Lost Decade"?--America's New Industrial Strategy and China's Status as the "World Factory"
In the first decade of the 21st century, U.S. manufacturing hegemony suffered its most severe decade-long decline, and cracks began to appear in the once-impregnable "steel fortress." During this "lost decade," the tide of globalization and manufacturing outsourcing battered the steel backbone of "Made in America." Meanwhile, emerging economies such as China, after joining the WTO, rapidly integrated into the international division of labor and took on massive industrial transfers from developed countries. The U.S. manufacturing hegemony, which had endured for over a century, faced severe challenges from China and showed strong signs of wavering. In 2010, China surpassed the United States to become the world's largest manufacturing nation. In the 200-year history of industrialization, this marked another watershed event, following the United States overtaking Britain in manufacturing output in 1890.
Date：2026.01.23
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23 2026.01
The Underlying Logic of Divergent U.S.-China Strategic Perceptions
President Xi Jinping has pointed out that the issue of strategic perception is always the first button that must be fastened correctly in China‑US relations. This underscores the paramount importance of strategic perception for the bilateral relationship. As the saying goes, "Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will win every battle." In retrospect, the U.S. "engagement" strategy toward China was in fact built on a misperception of China's politics. Today, it is imperative for the Chinese side to gain a clear understanding of Western politics, especially that of the United States. A sound grasp of each other's political systems not only helps to understand mutual strategic perceptions but also clarifies certain judgments concerning China‑US relations.
From the perspective of historical political science, China's and the United States' strategic perceptions of each other are both rooted in their respective political outlooks and their understandings of "international relations" as external politics. These political outlooks, in turn, directly stem from their historically distinct trajectories.Date：2026.01.23
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11 2025.12
From Real Economy to Virtual Economy: The Decline of Great Powers
Mainstream explanations for the rise and fall of great powers all suffer from certain limitations. From the perspective of global politics, this study adopts a long historical and comparative case study approach and finds that, in the history of capitalism since the rise of the West, cyclical hegemonic decline has often been triggered by the economy's shift from real to virtual sectors. The structural root of this shift lies in the disembedding of capital power, which eventually leads to the capture of political power.
Date：2025.12.11
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澄海全球 · 观点 | 特朗普第二任期以来中美对两国关系的战略认知及发展前景
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澄海全球 · 观点 | 中国式现代化：两种政治文明孕育的新文明形态
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澄海全球 · 观点 | 关于特朗普政府《国家安全战略》的三个思考
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澄海全球 · 观点 | 特朗普第二任期以来中美对两国关系的战略认知及发展前景
特朗普第二任期以来，中美两国对双边关系的战略认知展现出显著变化，两国关系呈现出新的发展态势。2025年10月30日，在两国元首釜山会晤中，中国国家主席习近平指出：“中美关系在我们共同引领下, 保持总体稳定。”中美关系在元首外交的关键战略引领下被注入新动力、明确了新方向，有助于打造“中美两国积极互动新范式”。经过近一年的良性互动，中美两国在2025年年末相继发布了涉及对外战略与政策的重要文本。2025年11月28日，《习近平外交思想学习纲要（2025 年版）》正式出版发行，对新时代中国特色大国外交的核心指导思想与关键实践路径做出全面且权威的阐释。其第73条聚焦于中美关系，系统阐述了推动中美关系寻求“正确相处之道”的中国智慧与中国方案。2025年12月4日，美国白宫发布新版《国家安全战略》（National Security Strategy）报告，集中阐述了凸显特朗普风格与偏好的对外战略，其在对华战略与政策上的论述也呈现出较大变化。由此可见，两个重要文本分别反映出关于中美关系新的“战略认知”。本文的“战略认知”主要是作为决策层面的官方战略表达，并非主观认知或建构主义意义上的观念结构，而是制度化、高层次、共识性的政策性表达，体现为国家在特定语境下对外部环境、身份定位乃至利益目标的官方共识。因此，本文所讨论的“战略认知”，主要指中美两国在重要文本中所呈现的，对双边关系中国家利益关键关切、国家优先事项及战略目标等事项的界定。那么，中美先后发布的重要文本分别传达出各自对中美关系怎样的新的战略认知？基于新的战略认知，在结构性矛盾与深层次分歧依旧存在的背景下，特朗普第二任期以来的中美关系何以保持总体稳定？从彼此战略认知的异同及当前总体稳定的现实出发，又该如何预判未来一段时间中美关系的发展前景？为回答上述问题，本文基于对中美两国重要文本梳理，尝试比较特朗普第二任期以来中美各自对两国关系的新的战略认知，并结合现实互动分析中美关系当前总体稳定态势，从而做出关于其现实与前景的理解与判断。
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澄海全球 · 观点 | 中国式现代化：两种政治文明孕育的新文明形态
“中国式现代化”“第二个结合”等创新理论亟待学理化体系化，社会科学化研究是不二路径。本文基于历史政治学的研究发现，当代中国政治生活与中国传统政治文明具有高度的历史连续性，而活力则源自马克思主义政党。在国家形态上，大一统国家经由传统的中央集权制演化为由公共型政治领导力量建立的民主集中制原则，从而得到有效维护；在政府层面，即在作为能动者的领导集团层面，“选贤与能”原则贯通了“士人政府”代表的传统儒家执政集团与“干部制”代表的当代使命型执政集团；在社会层面，即在作为能动者的民众那里，中国共产党发明的群众路线推动了传统的民本思想转型为民本主义民主。中国式现代化其实是马克思主义政治文明与中华传统政治文明孕育的一种新文明形态，即毛泽东在《新民主主义论》中论述的“先进文明”。这一发现的启示是，“第二个结合”是需要解放思想才能认识的认识论，历史政治学是“第二个结合”落地的方法论，作为新文明形态的中国式现代化研究呼唤新的国家理论。
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澄海全球 · 观点 | 关于特朗普政府《国家安全战略》的三个思考
2025年12月4日，特朗普政府对外发布了美国《国家安全战略》，为其第二任期的对外战略与政策做出了明确的总体规划，引发国际社会密切关注。这份报告虽非篇幅最短，但的确是1987年以来新就任政府最迅速发布的一份，甚至早于其第一任期（2017年12月18日）同类报告的发布时间。迅速出台的报告，凸显了特朗普及其主导的对外战略制定团队酝酿已久的鲜明观点，反映出当前美国对外战略及其政策的重大变化。此次发布的《国家安全战略》报告是否真的预示着美国的战略收缩？报告是否只是特朗普个人的想法而并不代表其他政界精英？报告是否只能在特朗普政府第二任期内得以推行，而在2029年后面临重大调整？回答这些问题，有助于理解这份报告，也有助于判断未来一段时间的美国对外战略与政策走向。
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澄海全球 · 观点 | 美国经济战略的大转向与中美关系的未来
特朗普政府近期发布的美国《国家安全战略》报告是在特朗普总统个人权力基础非常稳固的背景下出台的。尽管特朗普本人不会遵照一份纸质文件制定具体政策， 但它比较精确地阐述了特朗普集团的整体施政方向和施政理念，对理解特朗普政府的战略思想和战略逻辑具有重要的参考意义。这份报告的文风一改技术官僚的稳重规范，行文天马行空，观点清晰明确，用词犀利直接。报告继承了特朗普一以贯之的政治口号，比如“美国优先”是这版国家安全战略的总基调，但也有许多新的具体内容，值得高度重视。