National Bureau of Asian Research
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For a Chinese language fellowship program and a research project on China’s relations with its neighboring countries
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
0 months
Description
China’s global prominence continues to attract the attention of international affairs experts, practitioners, and world leaders. Addressing the increasing salience of U.S.-China relations and their implications for peace and security requires a robust community of policy-minded American China experts and a deeper understanding of how China perceives its position in global affairs. Renewed Corporation support to the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) will advance two important initiatives: the Chinese Language Fellowship Program (CLFP); and the expansion of a policy research project on China’s perception of its “strategic space.” CLFP, now in its sixth cohort, addresses the general deterioration of area studies in the context of strained U.S.-China relations. The research project will analyze China’s activities in its “borderlands” to better understand how China is pursuing economic and security objectives in its neighborhood.
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For a Chinese language fellowship program and a research project on China’s conceptions of the Indo-Pacific
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
China’s global rise continues to attract the attention of international affairs experts, practitioners, and world leaders. Tensions with the United States—exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing security and economic concerns, and growing China-Russia ties—have increased the salience of U.S.-China relations and their implications for peace and security. Renewed Corporation support of the National Bureau of Asian Research advances two important initiatives: the renewal of a Chinese Language Fellowship Program that aims to improve the Chinese language skills of American graduate students; and a policy research project on China’s definition of the “Indo-Pacific” and its strategic implications. The former fills a unique niche that addresses the general deterioration of area studies in the context of strained U.S.-China relations, while the latter responds to the need for an informed understanding of a region of growing importance and contention.
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For a Chinese Language Fellowship Program and a research project on China's Strategic Advance in Africa
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
China’s global rise increasingly attracts the attention of international relations experts, practitioners, and world leaders. Tensions with the United States—exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic—have increased the salience of U.S.-China relations and their implications for peace and security in the 21st Century. A grant to the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) encompasses two initiatives addressing important aspects of America’s engagement with China. The first initiative seeks to expand and enhance the Chinese Language Fellowship Program to improve the Chinese language skills of American Ph.D. students. The second initiative, involving international convenings, research and analysis, and policy outreach, investigates China’s strategic inroads on the African continent and what these actions and policies mean for the United States and its allies. The Corporation will support a continuation of the first initiative and provide new funding for the second.
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For a research project on China’s vision for a new regional and global order, and a Chinese Language Fellowship program
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
24 months
Description
China’s increasing global presence has captured the attention of international relations experts, practitioners, and world leaders. For aspiring U.S. China experts to have a better understanding of China, proficiency in Mandarin has become a necessary skill. With Corporation support, a new project will encompass two initiatives at the National Bureau of Asia Research (NBR) that address both the current and future relationship between the United States and China. The first is a policy research project directly engaging Chinese scholars and policymakers, as well as their writings, in an assessment of China’s contemporary vision for a new regional and international order. The second seeks to establish a Chinese Language Fellowship (CLF) program to improve the Mandarin language skills of American doctoral candidates in political science, and bolster U.S. capacity to analyze and respond to future China-related developments.
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For a project on the strategic implications of Russia-China relations
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
The emergence of both China and Russia as major global powers presents both challenges and opportunities for the United States. By focusing on the potential for a Sino-Russian alliance, strategic options for America and its allies come into clearer focus. The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) proposes a concentrated, bipartisan project into early-2018, designed to inform the U.S. presidential campaigns, the new administration in 2017, and the broader American policy community. The project would start with an assessment of the current state of the Sino-Russian relationship, and the problems or advantages it currently poses for the United States and the “West” more generally. It would explore the dynamics behind, and likelihood of, a tighter Sino-Russian alignment, including the internal and external dynamics driving the relationship, and its implications for U.S. and broader international peace and security interests.
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For collaborative research, dialogue, and policy outreach on U.S.-China relations
Date
Dec. 05, 2013
Duration
29 months
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For research, analysis, dialogue and policy outreach on nuclear developments in the Asia-Pacific region
Date
Dec. 05, 2013
Duration
43 months
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One-time funding toward the program activities of a chair in national security studies
Date
Mar. 06, 2008
Duration
12 months