The Brookings Institution And Its Impact On US Decision - Making In China

The paper “The Influence of Brookings Institution on the U.S. Policy towards China” breaks through the limitation of traditional pattern which considers the whole think tanks as a research object. It chooses Brookings Institution, which is the most important think tank and has great influence on U.S. foreign policy, as the sole target.By analyzing and summarizing its development, operation and research programs on China, the paper gives a qualitative analysis on the effects of Brookings Institution in the U.S. foreign policy-making process.The first chapter points out the influence pattern of think tank over U.S. policy making, as well as the main path to achieve it. Thus laying the foundation of study afterwards.The second chapter of the paper carries on a detailed introduction of the Brookings Institution from aspects such as its developing history, organizational structure, funding mechanisms and research areas, highlighting its orientation and characteristics; and then its public profile and main achievements are elaborated.The third chapter starts to discuss the China study of Brookings Institution. Firstly,it reviews the history of the China study and introduces several significant experts on China study; then analyses the primary reasons of their attitudes toward China; lastly,illustrates the main viewpoints on China of the Brookings Institution.The fourth chapter specifically analyses the influencing degree of Brookings Institution on U.S. Decision-making towards China in the Post-Cold War Era. At first,it analyses the evolution and characteristics of U.S. policy toward China in the post-cold war era, pointed out that the United States was carrying out an China’s policy of both engagement and containment; At second, with numbers of case analysis,it expounded the role which Brookings Institution plays and its influence paths in the U.S. decision-making towards China after the cold war.The final chapter reviews the main viewpoints of the paper, and proposes some new methods on our study of Sino-America relations.