Inter-Asia think tank partners ranked among the best in the world

An important aspect of the Inter-Asia research group's current project The impact of East Asia in the Spanish context: Cultural production, politics/policies and society, funded by the Spanish government, is the role of our close cooperation with external entities that promote the project and observe its results (Entes Promotores Observadores; EPOs), including leading think tanks in Spain and in China.The International Relations Program of the University of Pennsylvania has recently published its Global Go to Think Tanks Report 2011, the fifth edition of its annual report, lead by Professor James G. McGann, and the only international ranking system for think tanks available to date. As part of the survey process, the Report contacted 6,545 think tanks, while producing the most authoritative list of high performance think tanks in the world.

One of Inter-Asia's closest collaborators, the CIDOB Foundation (the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs; Centro de Estudios y Documentación Internacionales de Barcelona) has been ranked number 33 among the Fifty Leading Think Tanks in Western Europe. 

Several of the Chinese think tanks with which Inter-Asia collaborates together with the CIDOB Foundation have also been very highly ranked:

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)

• Top Thirty Think Tanks – Worldwide (US and Non-US) (#28)
• Top Thirty Think Tanks in Asia (#1)
• Top Thirty Domestic Economic Policy Think Tanks (#30)
• Top Thirty International Development Think Tanks (#23)
• Top Thirty International Economic Policy Think Tanks (#28)
• Best Government Affiliated Think Tanks (#12)

Institute of World Economics and Politics (IWEP, CASS)

• Top Thirty Domestic Economic Policy Think Tanks (#28)

Central Party School

• Best Government Affiliated Think Tanks (#17)

China Institute of International Studies (CIIS)

• Best Government Affiliated Think Tanks (#18)

CIDOB shares its place in the list of Top Fifty Think Tanks in Western Europe with two other Spanish institutes, FRIDE (#30), and the Elcano Royal Institute (#48; in the broader Top Fifty Security and International Affairs Think Tanks, Elcano is #49). Through the CIDOB Foundation, Inter-Asia research group member Sean Golden collaborates with the Elcano Royal Institute as a member of the Editorial Board of the Anuario Asia-Pacífico, the only Spanish language Yearbook dedicated to the Asia-Pacific region, co-edited and co-published by Casa Asia, CIDOB Foundation and the Elcano Royal Institute (Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estratégicos).