School of International Relations and Diplomacy

The School of International Relations and Diplomacy (SIRD) traces its origins to the Diplomacy program, established in 1999 at Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU), long known as the "cradle of diplomats". As the university's earliest interdisciplinary major, the Department of Diplomacy initially merged with the English Department to form the School of English Studies to promote complementary strengths and interdisciplinary integration. In September 2006, the Department of Diplomacy merged with the Institute of International Studies, officially giving rise to the School of International Relations and Diplomacy.

The school consists of the Department of Diplomacy, the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, and the editorial office of International Forum, an academic journal. It offers a master's degree program in Political Science and a doctoral program in International Relations and Area Studies. The school currently enrolls undergraduate students in three majors: Diplomacy, International Organizations and Global Governance, and a Sino-foreign joint program in Diplomacy.

SIRD has developed a talent cultivation model characterized by interdisciplinary knowledge, multilingual capabilities, and global vision. The school currently has 622 Chinese students (441 undergraduates, 138 master's students and 43 doctoral students). Additionally, it hosts 45 international students (22 undergraduates, 19 master's or doctoral students and 4 in exchange programs) hailing from countries such as South Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Russia, the United Kingdom and Spain.

The school has 35 faculty and staff members, including 12 professors and researchers, and 6 associate professors or associate researchers. Many faculty members have been selected for prestigious talent programs. Over the past five years, the faculty members have published 586 academic papers in major domestic and international journals, including 167 high-quality representative papers, authored 17 monographs, and led 14 National Social Science Fund projects—2 key projects and 3 major ones among them. They have also received 13 significant awards at the national, ministerial, and professional-society levels.

Leveraging BFSU's unique strength of offering courses in 101 foreign languages, SIRD relies on the university's 41 Ministry of Education-approved centers and incubators for country and area studies to build a robust academic platform. The school emphasizes language proficiency and academic research, balancing international relations with area and country studies, and major power studies with research on developing countries. It has developed distinct research teams in five key areas, US politics and diplomacy, EU politics and diplomacy, China's international discourse power, global governance, and political thought, earning a strong reputation in China's academic community.

国际关系学院介绍

国际关系学院前身为外交学专业，1999年诞⽣于素有"外交官摇篮"之称的北京外国语大学，是我校最早的复合型专业。为推进优势互补和学科交叉融合，外交学系与英语系合并为英语学院。2006年9⽉，外交学系与国际问题研究所合并，国际关系学院正式诞生。

学院下设外交学系、政治学与行政学系、《国际论坛》编辑部，拥有政治学一级学科硕士点和国际关系与区域研究二级学科博士点，招收外交学、国际组织与全球治理、外交学（中外合作办学）三个本科专业。

学院以习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想为指导，坚持立德树人，把社会主义核心价值观教育融入专业教学过程，已形成"复合型、复语型、国际化"的人才培养模式。现有中国籍在校学生622人，其中本科生441人、硕士研究生138人、博士研究生43人；在读留学生45人，其中本科留学生22人、硕博留学生19人、校际交换生4人，来自韩国、日本、印度尼西亚、俄罗斯、英国、西班牙等国家。

学院现有教职工35⼈，其中教授及研究员12⼈，副教授及副研究员6⼈。多位教师⼊选高层次人才项⽬，包括国家万⼈计划哲学社会科学领军⼈才、中宣部宣传思想⽂化青年英才、教育部"新世纪⼈才"、北京市"四个⼀批"⼈才、北京市⾼校青年英才等。近五年来，学院教师在国内外重要期刊发表学术论文586篇，其中167篇为高质量的代表性论文；出版专著17部；主持14项国家社科基金项目（其中重点项目2项、重大专项3项）；获得国家级、省部级和专业学会级重要奖项13项。

学院充分利用北京外国语大学获批开设101门外语的独特优势，依托校内41个教育部国别区域研究中心和培育基地组成的高水平学术平台群，坚持外语技能和学术研究并重、国际关系研究和区域国别研究并重、大国研究和发展中国家研究并重，在美国政治与外交、欧盟政治与外交、中国国际话语权、全球治理、政治思想等五大领域形成了特色研究团队，在国内享有较高声誉。