GIGA Is Part of the New Leibniz Research Network on China
Research | 11/11/2025
GIGA Is Part of the New Leibniz Research Network on China
The Leibniz Association has established the Leibniz Research Network China under the leadership of the PRIF Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. The network will combine existing knowledge on China and make it available for German academia, society, and politics.
The Leibniz Research Network China’s areas of focus are:
Geopolitics and systems competition
Security, trade, and peace
Innovation, education, and technology policy
Climate, environment, and justice
Development and infrastructure
Researcher Dr. Julia Gurol-Haller is participating in the network on behalf of the GIGA. In the scope of her work as a political scientist, she works on China’s foreign policy, among other topics.
We look forward to the exchange and collaboration in the network!
China is a partner, competitor, and systemic rival vis-à-vis the European Union. But it is also a political actor that needs to be understood on its own terms. The GIGA offers significant expertise on China’s political and economic development, as well as on the country’s role in both regional and global affairs.
The GIGA Institute for Asian Studies investigates current developments in Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Australasia. Research topics include civil society–state relations, China and India in regional and global affairs, and the Indo-Pacific as a strategic space.
The Global Orders and Foreign Policies Research Programme studies the development and maintenance of regional and global orders in contemporary world politics – along with challenges to those orders – as well as examining the agency and policies of established and emergent actors and structures that contribute to these ordering processes.
