New Research Training Group on China’s Geoeconomic Rise Receives DFG Funding

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved funding for the new Research Training Group (RTG) “China-GRASP: China’s Geoeconomic Rise and the Accumulation of Structural Power” at the University of Göttingen in cooperation with the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).

Based at the Faculties of Social Sciences and Economic Sciences, the RTG builds on the long-standing interdisciplinary collaboration fostered through the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS). Bringing together researchers from economics, political science, China studies, and agricultural economics, the programme will investigate China’s growing geoeconomic influence and its implications for global power relations.

The RTG will be led by Prof. Anja Jetschke (Institute of Political Science) as designated spokesperson and Prof. Andreas Fuchs (Professor of Development Economics and Global Political Economy) as designated co-spokesperson. It will train a new generation of researchers whose work bridges China studies, economics, and the social sciences. Over the next five years, doctoral researchers will investigate China’s growing geoeconomic influence across the dimensions of security, production, finance, and knowledge, and explore how these developments reshape global power relations and generate responses from states and other actors.

The programme also includes collaborations with international partners, including the University of Amsterdam and the University of British Columbia. The DFG will support the Research Training Group for an initial five-year period.

Further information is available on the University of Göttingen website:

https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html?id=8191