Background and Rationales

RUPP has been a bastion of Cambodian intellectual training and talent cultivation for the past thirty-two years since its reopening in 1980. Particularly, it has significantly contributed to the building of human and institutional capital, and practical knowledge in Cambodia’s development. While the country is playing an increasingly important role in the regional and global economic, political and cultural dynamics, the past thirty-two years of integration into the international political, capital and cultural flows have brought about challenges and opportunities specific to Cambodia but highly relevant in various ways to countries in both the region and of the world. This Cambodian development experience – of negotiating cultural (knowledge) exchange and identity, confronting the (new) order of international capitalism, western ideologies and dominant knowledge, and engaging in various forms of regionalism and internationalism – and the Cambodian development perspectives of the increasingly connected world remain inadequately understood and under-theorized. Knowledge production on Cambodia in the globalizing world remains undertaken largely by non-Cambodians, and there remain few locally based institutions engaging in studying Cambodia and its regional dynamics. Therefore, it is high time that RUPP, in the name of Cambodia, established an indigenous knowledge application and production base for furthering the country’s development and promotion to the world.

Visions

IISPP is to become a leading institution and a center of excellence contributing to academic scholarship and research on Cambodia, Asia, the world and their interfaces.

Mission

The Institute is committed to its primary missions across three key areas:

• Teaching and Research: Offering rigorous, relevant degree programs and fostering advanced, original, and rigorous research on complex, high-relevance topics.

• Engagement and Services: Actively engaging with society and providing valuable services to the field.

• International Cooperation and Integration: Promoting collaboration and integration into international academic and policy networks.

Goal

The central goal of IISPP is to produce well-rounded and skillful graduates who possess the in-depth knowledge and critical analytical, research, and transferable skills necessary to successfully contribute to careers in international affairs, economics, and public policy, thus supporting the country's strong, robust system and socio-economic development.

Contact Info

Phone: 023 885 419

Email: info.iispp@rupp.edu.kh

Address: # Russian Bvld., Toul Kork, Phnom Penh