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This category covers national security programs in universities and in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). The number of such organizations with active arms control programs is small, but growing. The Institute of World Economics and Politics (IWEP) addresses political military issues at a very general level in its research papers and conferences, and in the past it has co-sponsored at least one event with the Academy of Military Sciences of the PLA. The Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation Studies at the Institute of American Studies is a small organization that performs research on arms control and strategic studies. The Program on Arms Control and International Security, part of the American Studies Center at Fudan University in Shanghai, is unique in its establishment of an academic program of instruction and research focused on arms control and U.S. defense policy. A number of young arms control experts affiliated with the Center have a solid understanding of the issues. They visit the United States frequently and publish articles on Western and Russian arms control. Increasingly, the center at Fudan is playing an important role in bilateral relations on security issues. Equally significant is the fact that scholars from Fudan now cooperate with both scholars and officials from a number of important government bodies, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the PLA, and the Commission on Science, Technology, and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND). Beijing University has established a national security policy program at its new Center for Arms Control and Disarmament Studies, focusing on nuclear nonproliferation, nuclear disarmament, and the establishment of confidence-building measures. Although its staff and resources are relatively limited, the key people involved have good international contacts. The Arms Control Program at Tsinghua University's Institute of International Studies also studies international arms control issues, focusing on academic exchange and education. The program has organized a number of domestic and international conferences, and in 2002 it hosted an Arms Control Summer Symposium that featured simulated negotiations of arms control issues.
Chinese Arms Control Organizations: A Basic Primer
Originally compiled by:
Wendy Frieman
Director of the Asia Technology Project
Science Applications International Corporation
Revised and updated by:
East Asia Nonproliferation Project
Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Monterey Institute of International Studies
Updated 06/28/2003
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