Think Tanks in Russia and China: History of Creation, Assessment of the Current State and the Prospects of Cooperation

The relevance of the research concerning the think tanks creation and development is due to the increased role of the expert community in preparing the analytical base for making managerial decisions at the state level. Currently, think tanks are ranked as the “fifth power”, after the legislative, e...

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Published in:EURASIAN INTEGRATION: economics, law, politics
Main Author: E. A. Kuklina
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Russian
Published: President of the Russian Federation, Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, North-West Institute of Management 2020
Subjects:
H
Law
K
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.22394/2073-2929-2020-1-36-46
https://doaj.org/article/167d8623d594477993f1d20d89d8053d
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Summary:The relevance of the research concerning the think tanks creation and development is due to the increased role of the expert community in preparing the analytical base for making managerial decisions at the state level. Currently, think tanks are ranked as the “fifth power”, after the legislative, executive, judicial powers and the media, which enhances their importance and role in modern society. Today, international conferences of think tanks and the network associations development of expert and analytical structures is one of the transnationalization manifestations in the intellectual sphere. The article presents the results of studying the prerequisites for the think tanks emergence in the world and the stages of their evolution, and describes the characteristic features. A grouping of new analytical centers inRussiais presented, the features of the emergence and development of Asian think tanks, which play an important role in enhancing the international scientific and expert dialogue, are revealed. The features and stages of theChinathink tanks formation, as well as their modern structure are presented. One of the promising areas of Russian-Chinese cooperation in the expert analytical sphere has been identified, the hypothesis is the possibility of implementing joint Russian-Chinese expertanalytical cooperation projects in the Arctic zone.