A team of AREA Ruhr experts on Modern China – Prof. Sebastian Bersick, Prof. Jörn-Carsten Gottwald, Prof. Nele Noesselt, and Prof. Markus Taube – were successful in applying for funding by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMBF) for their joint project “Securitized and Resilient China” (in short SEREC). The project’s German title is “Die Neuausrichtung der chinesischen Außenpolitik auf der Grundlage von umfassender Versicherheitlichung und ökonomischem Resilienzstreben: Implikationen für Deutschland und die Europäische Union.” The grant is part of the BMBF’s program Moderne Chinaforschung II.
SEREC is divided into four sub-projects, each focusing on Chinese approaches to a particular policy area, i.e. foreign, economic, cyber, and digital, and their implications for Germany and the EU. Next to the four PIs a pre-doc and a post-doc researcher work on the project which is funded for four years.
More information will follow soon.