Human security and the Chinese state
Subtitle: historical transformations and the modern quest for sovereignty
By: Robert E. Bedeski
Series: Routledge contemporary China series -- 17; Routledge contemporary China series -- 17.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780203964750
Copyright date: 2007
Subjects: Politics and government; Social contract; Security (Psychology); The State; Sovereignty; Politique et gouvernement; Contrat social; Insécurité; Aspect politique; État; Souveraineté; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Government; General; National; Reference; Essays
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-185) and index.
Table of contents: title: Human survival, human institutions, and human security; title: Dimensions of human security : foundations in individual human life; title: The modern sovereign nation-state (MSNS); title: Prologue to a theory of human security; title: A notational theory of human security; title: Actualizing imperial sovereignty in ancient China; title: Claiming dynastic sovereignty under the imperial meta-constitution; title: Sovereignty and state-building in late Qing and Republican China; title: Contemporary China's incomplete sovereignty : fusion, succession, and adaptation.