Integrating research and education, the School of Global and Regional Studies serves as a key national base for cultivating specialized talents in international studies and professionals for foreign affairs. Built upon eight former graduate departments of the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (GSCASS), the School has since added undergraduate programs. Originally founded as the School of International Relations in September 2020, it was renamed and restructured against the backdrop of advancing a new model of research-education integration in June 2022.

The School draws fully on the disciplinary resources and faculty strength of eight research institutes under the Academic Division of International Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS): the Institute of World Economics and Politics, the Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, the Institute of European Studies, the Institute of West Asian and African Studies, the Institute of Latin American Studies, the Institute of Asia-Pacific and Global Strategy, the Institute of American Studies, and the Institute of Japanese Studies. These institutes are among China’s earliest research institutions engaged in international studies, particularly area and country-specific research, and have accumulated profound academic achievements over decades. Their research coverage spans nearly all regions of the world, including the Asia-Pacific, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, West Asia and Africa, Europe, and Latin America, as well as major countries such as the United States, Japan, and Russia. The research examines the multi-dimensional history, economy, politics, diplomacy, society, and culture of each region and country. These institutes constitute a leading domestic research cluster for area studies, characterized by comprehensive sub-disciplinary coverage, full-spectrum research fields, a sizable professional research team, and a balanced integration of basic academic research and policy-oriented studies.

The School covers three first-level disciplines: Area Studies, Political Science, and Theoretical Economics. It offers four doctoral programs in Area Studies, World Economics, International Relations, and International Politics, and is authorized to award doctoral and master's degrees under the first-level disciplines in Law, Economics, History, and Literature. It provides four academic master's programs in Area Studies, World Economics, International Relations, and International Politics, a professional master's program in International Affairs, and an undergraduate program in International Affairs and Relations, now listed as a Beijing Municipal First-Class Undergraduate Program construction site. Up to now, the School has basically built a coherent training framework connecting undergraduate, master’s and doctoral studies. The current Dean of the School is Zhang Yuyan, Member of CASS and First-Class Professor.

Having been initially established as a pilot school for innovative research-education integration at the university, the School currently comprises eight graduate teaching departments, two general teaching divisions, and one professional master's education center. It has a total of 409 students: 65 undergraduates, 104 master's students, and 240 doctoral students. The School boasts a distinguished faculty team of 223 members, including 9 full-time teachers, 21 adjunct instructors, and 193 graduate supervisors. The faculty includes 126 professors, or holders of senior professional titles; 90 associate professors, or holders of associate senior professional titles; and 7 lecturers, or holders of mid-level professional titles. Among them, two scholars serve on the Review Panel of the National Social Science Fund of China. Some faculty members are recipients of the State Council Special Allowances. Some hold prestigious national talent titles, such as Cultural Master and "Four Batches of Top Experts" Talent, National Hundred, Thousand and Ten-Thousand Talent Project selectees, National Leading Talent in Philosophy and Social Sciences, Young Top-notch Talent under the National Ten-Thousand Talents Program, National Leading Talent in the Press and Publishing Industry, Young Outstanding Talent in National Communication, Ideological and Cultural Development, Young and Middle-aged Expert with Outstanding Contributions under the National Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Talents Project. Several faculty members serve on national discipline advisory panels as senior researchers at CASS national global strategy think tanks, and hold key positions including director, president, and vice president in major national academic societies. Many also work as editors-in-chief or deputy editors-in-chief of authoritative domestic journals in relevant fields.

The School has achieved fruitful research outcomes over years, consistently generating high-level research findings that exert profound academic, policy and social influence in international studies and area studies. The affiliated research institutes oversee eight top-tier authoritative and core academic journals, including World Economics and Politics, Contemporary Asia-Pacific Studies, American Studies, and European Studies. Faculty members have published numerous papers in leading journals such as Social Sciences in China, World Economics and Politics, and World Economy. Their achievements have attracted wide attention from policy circles and academic communities. Faculty members undertake and preside over a range of key research projects, including major, key, and general programs funded by the National Social Science Fund of China, key research projects at the academy level, programs supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and commissioned research tasks assigned by central government authorities and the CASS leadership. Relevant research has won numerous awards at or above the provincial and ministerial levels and has received official feedback from principal national leaders. Building on high-level research strengths, the School attaches great importance to fostering students' research competence. Undergraduates are assigned academic supervisors at an early stage of their studies. This allows students to join research projects and teams and take part in academic activities, thereby strengthening undergraduate training through rigorous academic research.

The School is endowed with high-quality resources in international education and academic exchanges, maintaining exchange ties with renowned universities and research institutions across the world. Its faculty maintains close academic partnerships with international organizations including the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The School has established formal cooperation mechanisms with over 60 overseas universities and research bodies, such as Stanford University, Heidelberg University, Russian Academy of Sciences, University of Tokyo, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa. Bilateral cooperation encompasses joint research, academic publishing and talent cultivation, laying a solid foundation for the School’s international talent training and globally oriented disciplinary development.

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