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China has long adhered to a principle of 'non-interference' in
other states' affairs. However, as more of its companies have been
investing in projects overseas, and millions of its nationals are
travelling abroad, Beijing is finding itself progressively involved
in other countries - through the need to protect these interests
and citizens. During the turmoil of the Arab Spring in 2011, China
was compelled to evacuate more than 35,000 Chinese workers and
expatriates from Libya, and later it led the hunt for the killers
of 13 Chinese sailors in the Golden Triangle region of the Mekong
River. In 2015, Beijing sent a combat battalion to join the UN
peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, where it has huge oil
ventures. Its plans to construct a New Silk Road will mean new
commercial endeavours to protect in Pakistan. The shift in Chinese
foreign policy towards a more interventionist approach in
protecting nationals abroad has not been the result of grand
strategy, but an adjustment to unfolding events. The large risk
appetite of state-owned Chinese business is inexorably drawing the
Chinese state into security hotspots, and as China becomes a great
power its people are openly calling on their government to protect
compatriots caught in crises overseas, including via military
means. While much attention has focused on Beijing's increasingly
assertive behaviour in disputed Asian seas, this book highlights
another equally important area of change, with potentially
far-reaching consequences for international security.
Chinese security has become a key focus after the Cold War. In just
a few decades, China has gone from an obscure position as a closed
communist developing country with little integration into
international institutions over being designated a prospective
strategic partner of the United States to being seen as
Washington's principal strategic opponent. Despite these vast
changes in perspective on China's international role and interests,
China is still seen as an enigmatic security actor with hidden
agendas and a vast chasm between Beijing's official policies and
strategic practices. The great interest in Chinese security is
reflected in the fact that it is hard to find a university program
across the world which does not have this topic as part of their
teaching and research agenda. Similarly, there is a vast literature
on the topic that addresses Chinese security from a great variety
of theoretical and empirical angles - including all schools of
international relations, foreign policy analysis, strategic studies
and also think-tank literature. This large body of academic
research has not yet been compiled and analysed with the aim to
identify the major works that have generated key debates in this
young field of scholarly work on China security studies. A major
works collection would make a significant contribution to shaping
this young and growing field. The existing literature, in its
ambition to make sense of Chinese security strategic thinking and
behaviour, focuses on understanding Chinese strategic intentions,
power tools, instruments of influence and threat perceptions and
which interests and world views they are based on. We include a
diverse range of contributions from America, Australia, Europe and
Japan to cover all major regional perspectives. We also include
major theoretical approaches, such as realist and liberal
approaches to Chinese security, English school contributions and
constructivist analyses. Each volume will also include work written
by Chinese scholars, including analysts in a policy-making role to
cover the Chinese perspectives on Chinese security. The scholarly
debates that help clarify and understand Chinese security
strategies focus first on conceptual debates about similarities and
differences between Chinese security strategic thinking compared to
the thinking dominating Western tradition and practice. A second
theme is China's national security priorities in Asia and the nexus
between China's homeland security (terrorism and separatism) and
international relations. A third theme is China's approach to the
management of international security affairs in the political,
economic and military sector, as an emerging great power with
increasingly global security interests. Finally, a fourth theme is
the making of China's national security policy, which involves
analyses of the main institutions and actors and how they interact
in a complex political system characterized by a relative lack of
transparency.
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