GIGA Hamburg

The Institute of Asian Affairs (IfA) was founded in 1956 in Hamburg by the initiative of the German Federal Parliament and the German Foreign Office. It concentrates on research and current review of the political, economic and social developments in China, Japan, Korea, the countries of Southeast Asia and India, on international, intraregional, and transregional relations and cooperation in Asia Pacific, and on regional economic cooperation in East, Southeast and South Asia. The IfA belongs to the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies (former German Overseas Institute). GIGA is the largest German research institute and one of the biggest European think-tanks for area studies and comparative area studies. GIGA cooperates with universities and research institutes in Germany, Europe and the regions under study.

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