复旦大学当代中国研究中心国际顾问委员会委员
Director of Brussels Institute of Contemporary China Studies
Gustaaf Geeraerts is Professor of International Relations and the Director of the Brussels Institute of Contemporary China Studies (BICCS), both at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). He is also an Editorial Board member of Global Society: Journal of Interdisciplinary International Relations. From 2006 to2008 he was the Dean of the Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences & Solvay Business School of VUB. Since 1999 Professor Gustaaf Geeraerts holds a Guest Professorship in Political Science at the Renmin University in Beijing. From 1999 until 2004 he was an Honorary Professor at the University of Kent at Canterbury. In the period 1986 to 1990 he was located at the Department of International Relations at the State University of Utrecht where he was specialized in research on the dynamics of international political processes. During that period he was also a member of the Board of Lecturers of the Centre for Advanced Research in International Affairs in the Netherlands (CARIAN). His research interests centre on international relations theory, China’s foreign policy, global governance and security in Europe and East Asia. He is currently working on Chinese perceptions of the EU as a global actor. Among his recent publications are: (with Men Jing), “International Relations Theory in China”, in Global Society, (Vol.15, 2001); (with Men Jing) “China’s Rise and Northeast Asian Security”, in Studia Diplomatica, Vol. 56, (2003), No. 6; (with Eric Remacle and Natalie Pauwels), Dimensions of Peace and Security, Brussels, Peter Lang, (2006), (with Jonathan Holslag), Macht of Mythe? Achter de schermen van het Chinese groeimirakel. (Power or myth? Behind the scenes of China’s growth miracle), Brussels, VUB Press, 2006, and (with Chen Zhimin & Gjovalin Macaj) “The Reform of the UN”, in Crossick, Stanley & Etienne Reuters(eds.), China-EU: A Common Future, Singapore, World Scientific Publishing, 2007. In 2003 he published together with his Chinese colleague of Fudan University, Chen Zhimin, Ouzhou lianmeng duiwai zhengce yitihua: bukeneng de shiming? (Foreign Policy Integration in the European Union: Mission Impossible?), Beijing, Shishi Publishing House, 2003, for which they received a Shanghai Research Reward in 2004.