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The Department of Government and International Studies (GIS) lies at the core of the University’s ambition of being a leading Liberal Arts university in Asia. We are heavily involved in global, comparative and local research, and closely connected to our local community, through our research, our engagement and our teaching and learning programmes. Our niche is the long-standing focus on global affairs in an increasingly interconnected world. Hong Kong and non-local students attending the Programme are given invaluable opportunities to reflect critically on how best to position Hong Kong and, by extension China, along the global-domestic nexus on the economic, social and geopolitical fronts. Since its inception, we have committed to the development of an open and diverse intellectual environment for the faculty and students to freely engage the theoretical perspectives and methodological tools to make sense of politics and international relations on both normative and empirical grounds. What guides this endeavour has been a concentric vision of global citizenship, including but not restricted by one’s self-identity or temporal preferences for ideas and interest, which emphasizes common challenges and collective problem-solving, both globally and locally. We take lesson-learning through advanced comparative studies seriously. Our Programme's commitment to nurture our young people to become cross-cultural interlocutors with world-class political science and international relations training provides us with a competitive edge.
We host two undergraduate degree programmes: BSocSc (hons) in Government and International Studies and the BSocSc (hons) in European Studies, the latter offered via French and German Streams. We are also involved in Faculty-wide Masters and doctoral programmes. In terms of our teaching provision and pedagogical approach, GIS is a very internationalized department that strongly encourages its students to spend one semester off-campus, preferably in another university overseas, and to learn more about the world outside of Hong Kong. The GIS programme is unique in Hong Kong because of its joint focus on Asia and European political affairs. It offers the basic introduction courses to political science, comparative politics, political culture, political economy and international relations. In addition, it offers many major required or elective courses related to China, Hong Kong, Japan, Southeast Asia as well as to European Union institutions and political developments, particularly French and German politics. The European Studies programme fulfills HKBU’s vision “[t]o be a leading liberal arts University in Asia delivering […] global culture”. We are the only European Studies programme in Hong Kong and in the Asia-Pacific that has a compulsory full academic year (2 consecutive semesters) in Europe, in France or in Germany. We have pioneered two dual degree programmes which ensure that a regular stream of non-local, non-mainland students will study for our programmes. We recognise the value-added dimension of global awareness while ensuring that the student body remains strongly anchored in Hong Kong. Hence, we endeavor to recruit a cohort of talented cosmopolitan students, who are liable to return to Hong Kong at the end of their studies and assume leading positions of responsibility as part of the interface between Hong Kong and the world, notably Europe. We are concerned with promoting the needs of Hong Kong and international society. Recent graduate employment surveys demonstrate the resolutely international vocation of our graduates, who occupy positions in business, the voluntary sector, public administration and higher education across the world.
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Scholars
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Jean-Pierre CABESTAN, Prof
- Department of Government and International Studies - Research Professor
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Kenneth K L CHAN, Dr
- Department of Government and International Studies - Associate Professor
- Comparative Governance and Policy Research Centre - Director
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The Legacies of Political Violence: How do Violence in Protests Shape Citizen Attitudes in Hong Kong?
1/01/22 → 31/12/23
Project: Research project
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Representing Women and Facing Electoral Disadvantage? A Mixed-method Analysis of Policy-career Trade-offs in South Korea and Taiwan
1/09/21 → 31/08/24
Project: Research project
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[Book Review] Multiple Modernities and Good Governance: edited by Thomas Meyer and José Luís de Sales Marques, London, Routledge, 2018, xiv + 188 pp., £110.00 (cloth), £29.99 (paper), £15.00 (ebook)
Chung, C. K. M., 19 May 2022, In: The European Legacy. 27, 3-4, p. 398-399 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
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[Book Review] New Public Management in Africa Contemporary Issues, Studies of Public Sector Management in Africa Series
Arkorful, V. E., 7 Jun 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: International Journal of Public Administration.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Analysing the Trust–Transparency Nexus: Multi-level Governance in the UK, France and Germany
Stafford, I., Cole, A. & Heinz, D., 24 Mar 2022, Bristol: Policy Press. 206 p. (Civil society and Social change)Research output: Book/Report › Book or report › peer-review
Prizes
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Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques
TRAN, Emilie (Recipient), 20 Oct 2020
Prize: Honorary award
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Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) - Fellowship reference PR180206
SLIWINSKI, Krzysztof (Recipient), 25 Sep 2020
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Macron seizes the middle high ground, it is difficult to prevent France from "turning to the right"
10/04/22
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French election: The new crown of the yellow vests disrupts Macron's reforms and has not done all the work
9/04/22
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Student theses
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Accommodating the dragon: Vietnam's enduring asymmetric entanglements with China
Author: Nguyen, T. T., 21 Jul 2016Supervisor: TING, W. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
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A food regime analysis of sub-Saharan African food crisis: the development of corporate food regime and counter-movement in the region
Author: Ip, C. Y., 2011Supervisor: TING, W. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Master's Thesis
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An analysis of Pakistan's foreign policy towards Peoples Republic of China: a strengthening alignment (2005 onwards)
Author: Hassan, S. K., 3 Sep 2019Supervisor: CABESTAN, J. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
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