The school is committed to building an outstanding academic community in the field of Chinese politics and international relations, focusing on major theoretical, strategic and practical issues that China needs to address urgently, studying China and the world through scientific methods, and carrying out major theoretical innovations.
Currently, the school hosts approximately 30 research centers, encompassing a wide range of studies including national/ regional studies, political ideologies, and strategic analysis.
- Center for Historical Political Science
- UN Research Center of RUC
- Workshop on International Law Issues in China's Diplomacy
- Institute of Political Thought and Culture
- Center for East Asian Studies
- Center for American Studies
- Center for Contemporary Chinese Political Parties
- Institute of Comparative and International Political Economy
- Center for International Energy Strategy Studies
- Institute of Comparative Political System
- Center for Clean Government Studies
- Center for China's Foreign Strategy Studies
- Center for Middle East and African Studies
- Center for Latin American Studies
- Center for Cross-Strait Relations
- Center for International Security and Strategy
- Center for Historical Political Science
- Center for Data Science
- Center for International Politics & Law, CIPL of RUC
- Workshop on Sci-Tech Revolution and World Politics
- Workshop on the Innovation of International Relations Theories
- Workshop on the Intenational Law Issues in China's Diplomacy
- Workshop on the Frontiers and Methodologies of Political Science
- Workshop on Contemporary Chinese Politics and Local Governance
- Workshop on Contemporary World Left-Wing Politics
- Workshop on Distributive Justice
