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发表于 2006-3-17 21:48:31
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<p>This was essentially the institutional landscape prior to the Cultural<br />Revolution (1966–76). During this chaotic time, all IR institutes and<br />universities were closed, the Foreign Ministry essentially ceased to<br />function, and personnel were sent to May 7th cadre schools in the<br />countryside. Apparently the only institute that continued to function<br />partially was CICIR (elevated to institute status in 1965), which contin-<br />ued as the current intelligence agency of the senior leadership and Central<br />Committee (although it is unclear if it remained bureaucratically under<br />the Investigation Department and/or the ILD). During these years the<br />CICIR staggered the sending of staff to its May 7th cadre school, so that<br />a core group continued to function at this delicate time in China’s<br />national security, and by 1969 – in the wake of the Soviet invasion of<br />Czechoslovakia and the Ussuri Crisis – it had been restored in its entirety.<br />CICIR staff apparently played an important role in helping the top<br />leadership understand the Nixon Doctrine and America’s reorientation of<br />policy towards China, and the dangers of the Soviet threat of invasion,<br />and prepare for Kissinger’s and Nixon’s visits to China.<br />The Foreign Ministry’s Institute of International Relations was<br />officially reopened in 1973 and was renamed the China Institute of<br />International Studies, so as not to be confused with the CICIR. In fact, the<br />institute remained dormant until 1978 as most of its staff remained in the<br />countryside.</p><p>The year 1977 was critical in the rehabilitation, reorganization and new<br />development of IR institutes. This was when CASS was founded, as the<br />successor to the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the<br />Academy of Sciences. More or less since its inception, CASS has had a<br />number of regional research institutes (diqu yanjiusuo) as well as the<br />Institute of World Economics and Politics.<br />The Soviet influence on China’s IR institutes was not simply organiza-<br />tional, whereby institutes were established within ministerial hierarchies<br />(whether in the state or party apparat) and strictly served their ministerial<br />masters; it was also analytical. Until the 1990s Chinese IR analysts still<br />subscribed largely to categories of analysis and paradigms they had<br />learned and adapted from the Soviet Union. The “Sovietization” of<br />Chinese international relations research and discourse began to change<br />appreciably only in the early to mid-1980s, with a move away from the<br />ideological dictates of Marxism-Leninism in favour of more empirical,<br />neutral and descriptive analysis. This was particularly the case in the new<br />study of the United States, Japan and the former Soviet Union.</p><p>Nevertheless analysis still often had to support policy, rather than vice<br />versa. In more than one instance, IR analysis had to justify policy<br />initiatives that had been taken by the Chinese government on pragmatic<br />rather then ideological grounds, such as in the extended polemic on<br />imperialism which spanned much of the decade of the 1980s. By the<br />1990s, however, in place of such Marxist-Leninist ideological analysis,<br />the trend towards “thick description” has deepened, and – as Bonnie<br />Glaser and Phillip Saunders’ contribution to this symposium suggests – it<br />has become more variegated, sophisticated and occasionally theoretical.<br />There is a much greater awareness of the interaction of domestic and<br />international systemic variables on foreign nations’ foreign relations, a<br />much more thorough understanding of international organizations (rang-<br />ing from the World Bank to the World Trade Organization), an increased<br />appreciation of political economy and globalization (quanqiuhua), and a<br />considerably deeper understanding of functional issues in world politics<br />(ranging from the environment to arms control). This is not to suggest<br />that Chinese international relations analysts and think tank experts do not<br />still infuse their analyses with a strong dose of doctrinaire orthodoxy, as<br />they still do, but it no longer derives from classic Marxism-Leninism.<br />Rather, core concepts such as “multipolarism” and the critique of<br />“hegemony”– both of which underpin and infuse most analyses – derive<br />from more indigenous Chinese theories and concepts. In academic IR<br />circles there is obsessive search to develop “IR theory with Chinese<br />characteristics.”</p><p></p><p>China Institute of Contemporary International Relations<br />In its organizational origins, CICIR is probably the oldest of China’s<br />IR think tanks. Its roots are traceable to the Chinese Communists’<br />intelligence operations during the Sino-Japanese War and the collection<br />effort against the US Dixie Mission and Soviet Comintern presence infact, its influence began to wane in the mid-1990s. The reasons for this<br />are not entirely clear, but would seem related to at least two factors: the<br />retirements or deaths of senior analytical staff without finding replace-<br />ments of sufficient analytical quality; and the increased dominance of the<br />Foreign Ministry in foreign policy decision-making. CICIR has yet to<br />recover fully from its diminished role.<br />CICIR’s comparative advantages remain its exclusive focus on current<br />intelligence and its ability to manufacture instant analyses, its large staff<br />(more than 400 including 150 “senior fellows”), its multiple sources of<br />information/intelligence, and its bureaucratic proximity to the Foreign<br />Affairs Office, FALG, Ministry of State Security and senior leadership.<br />These are not insignificant advantages. Many of CICIR’s writings are<br />related to prospective visits for foreign leaders or Chinese leaders’ trips<br />abroad: biographies of interlocutors, the current internal political situation<br />of the interlocutor’s nation, recent foreign policy interactions of interlocu-<br />tors, and compilations of pronouncements concerning China/Taiwan by<br />interlocutors.</p><p>To regain its status as China’s leading IR think tank, CICIR needs new<br />nfrastructure (indeed a new office building is under construction), new<br />personnel, better staff morale, a high-level patron (which it hasn’t had<br />ince Li Peng), and truly cosmopolitan senior management. Its current<br />eadership all share lengthy and shadowy careers in the intelligence<br />ervice. The institution still suffers from its excessive connection to<br />Soviet-style intelligence and a major identity crisis as to whether it should<br />be an intelligence agency, a more independent think tank or a combi-<br />nation of the two. As long as the Ministry of State Security pays most of<br />he bills and the FALG is CICIR’s principal customer, this ensures the<br />uture of the institution as a Soviet-style intelligence organ.<br />CICIR uses a number of internal (neibu) and classified (baomi) chan-<br />nels to reach government audiences, and it publishes the influential<br />ournal, Xiandai guoji guanxi. It also has an association with Factual<br />Publishers (Shi shi chubanshe) for book publishing.</p><p>Institute of Taiwan Studies<br />Although not an international relations institute per se, the Institute of<br />Taiwan Studies merits consideration in this survey. The institute is<br />officially under CASS, but also falls administratively and budgetarily<br />under several other key central-level bodies: the Taiwan Affairs Office of<br />the State Council (Tai ban), the Taiwan Leading Group of the Central<br />Committee (Zhongyang Taiwan lingdao xiaozu) and the Ministry of State<br />Security (Figure 7). It is the principal organization for current intelligence<br />on Taiwan affairs, and its staff also conduct some longer-range research<br />projects.Inadditiontoitsintelligenceandadvisoryroles,theinstitutealso<br />has an important role to play in the formulation of Taiwan policy. For<br />example, it was largely responsible for drafting the 2000 Taiwan White<br />Paper. The institute’s director is Xu Shiquan, a former Xinhua corre-<br />spondent with connections to the Chinese intelligence community and<br />senior Chinese leadership. The institute’s location adjacent to the College<br />of International Relations, and the fact that several of its staff come from<br />the College, are further indications of its Ministry of State Security links.</p> |
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