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Event Review | Chenghai Global · Distinguished Scholars Forum: The Global South between East and West
On April 20, 2026, Dr. Jörg Friedrichs, Associate Professor in the Department of International Development at the University of Oxford, visited upon invitation and delivered an academic lecture on the theme of "The Global South between East and West". The lecture focused on the strategic positioning and behavioral logic of Global South countries against the backdrop of the ongoing transformation of the international order, and systematically analyzed the structural changes in the East-West competitive landscape and their far-reaching implications for global governance. The session was chaired by Dr. Lian Chenchao, Secretary-General of the World Politics Research Center at Chenghai Institute of Global Development and Security. Professor Huang Yuxing, Deputy Director of the World Politics Research Center at Chenghai Institute of Global Development and Security, served as the discussant.
Event Review | Seminar on the New Book The Creative Transformation of Political Unification: A New Theory of China's Modern State-Building was successfully held
On April 2, 2026, the seminar on the New Book The Creative Transformation of Political Unification: A New Theory of China's Modern State-Building, hosted by Chenghai Institute of Global Development and Security, was successfully held at Renmin University of China (Zhongguancun Campus). The seminar was moderated by Du Xinlei, Editor of Journal of Renmin University of China. Experts from Fudan University, Tsinghua University, Peking University and Renmin university of China talked around the book at the seminar.
Chenghai · Book Review | Paper Soldiers: How the Weaponization of the Dollar Changed the World Order
Call for Papers | The 9th Theory and Application Workshop on Historical Politics and Historical Institutionalism
Chenghai · Book Review | Artificial Intelligence and the New World Order
Call for Papers for the "7th Forum on the Knowledge System of Chinese Political Science"
Call for Papers for the 7th Workshop on "State and Governance in History"
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A History of World Politics (three volumes)
This book series endeavors to provide a "new historiography" for the study of international issues. The proposed "world politics" paradigm focuses on the institutional changes of states driven by the world market and political ideologies, as well as the world order shaped thereby. As a theory of world politics rooted in China's traditional political civilization, Marxist world history theory, and the practice of the Communist Party of China, it is of great significance for disenchanting Western-centric international relations studies and constructing an autonomous Chinese knowledge system in political science. Comprising three volumes and nineteen chapters, the book is structured as follows: Volume One mainly examines the diverse landscape of world order before the 16th century. Rejecting the narrow perspective of Eurocentrism, it places European civilization on an equal footing with Confucian, Indian, and Islamic civilizations, and analyzes how different civilizational forms constructed regional world orders. Volume Two spans the 16th century to the mid-20th century, recounting the rise of the Western world and the formation of the modern Western-dominated world order—a historical structure from which we have not yet emerged. Volume Three focuses on various "counter-movements" against the liberal imperial world order since the 20th century, including socialist movements, national liberation movements, and diverse forms of resistance within Western countries. The rejuvenation of China heralds the emergence of a new world order.
Date：2026.04.03
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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 | 族群认同生成路径如何影响东南亚族群分离运动？——以菲律宾的摩洛问题为例
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澄海全球 · 观点 | 美国在重建欧洲安全秩序中的角色及其影响
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澄海全球 · 观点 | 美式“科工复合体”剖析
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澄海全球 · 观点 | 族群认同生成路径如何影响东南亚族群分离运动？——以菲律宾的摩洛问题为例
东南亚地区的族群分离运动一直是该地区区域国别研究领域的重点问题之一,其中菲律宾南部的摩洛问题是东南亚族群分离运动研究的典型案例。“自发”形成与“他者”建构是族群认同的两种生成路径,二者并非二元对立,而是动态共存。族群认同在“自发”与“他者”两种生成逻辑的互动中被塑造和重塑,在特定的历史情境下,何种认同生成逻辑占据主导以及两者之间的互动关系共同影响着分离运动的基本走向。在摩洛问题中,基于历史文化传统“自发”形成的原生性认同在殖民经验和后殖民时代菲律宾国家政策等外部力量的影响下,反而得到进一步的强化和激化,容易导致文化差异最终转化为难以调和的政治对抗,从而使得分离运动更加复杂化,大大增加了处理此类民族问题的难度。
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澄海全球 · 观点 | 美国在重建欧洲安全秩序中的角色及其影响
2024年底特朗普重返白宫以来，美国对外战略正经历深刻转向。从扬言“退出北约”到将盟友视为防务“客户”，从挥舞关税大棒到介入欧洲选举政治，“美国优先”的2.0版本如何重塑跨大西洋关系？俄乌冲突延宕之际，欧洲安全秩序又将走向何方？本文深入剖析特朗普第二任期的“欧洲安全观”，揭示其“有选择的霸权”逻辑——在西半球强化控制，对欧洲则施压分摊责任、攫取经济利益、甚至塑造文明版图。文章指出，美国正从欧洲安全的“守护者”蜕变为“自利调停者”与“有偿防务商”，而欧洲在军费飙升与战略自主之间面临艰难抉择。当“文明消亡”的论调成为政治工具，关税博弈深度捆绑跨大西洋经济，欧洲能否在美俄夹缝中凝聚为真正独立的“一极”？
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澄海全球 · 观点 | 美式“科工复合体”剖析
为维系科技主导地位、纾解霸权衰落压力，美国政府与科技巨头达成战略契合、完成利益绑定，技术能力、产业资本与国家权力加速嵌合，催生出所谓“科技—工业复合体”（以下简称“科工复合体”）。科工复合体的出现，不仅影响美国国内，还溢出国界对世界构成严峻挑战。
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澄海全球 · 观点 | “斩杀线”、金融资本与美国社会再生产危机：基于《资本论》的分析视角
本文以《资本论》为理论视角，深度剖析美国社会“斩杀线”现象的本质，揭示其背后金融资本主导下的社会再生产危机。文章指出，“斩杀线”并非简单的贫困问题，而是金融资本主义阶段，资本为追求自我增殖、转嫁风险，放弃对全体劳动力再生产责任的制度性结果。信用体系异化、公共服务私有化、生物存在商品化，共同构成资本对劳动力的系统性“斩杀”，弱势群体首当其冲。本文立足马克思主义政治经济学，厘清资本逻辑与劳动力再生产的根本冲突，也对照呈现中国以人民为中心、保障社会再生产可持续的制度优势，为理解当代资本主义困境提供深刻理论镜鉴。