1st Edition
Chinese Civil-Military Relations The Transformation of the People's Liberation Army
This new book addresses three key issues: What has changed in Chinese civil-military relations? What can account for changes? And what are the implications for Chinese security policy and strategic behaviour?
It tackles these questions by keenly assessing civil-military dynamics in elite politics; such dynamics in national security and arms control policy; relations between commanders and political commissars; relations between the PLA and society; civil-military dynamics regarding defence economics and logistics; and such dynamics regarding dual-use technologies and defence industry.
These analyses build into the central theme that the emphasis of Chinese civil-military relations is shifting from politics to military tasks. This is an extremely important new development by a nation many predict to become a super power in the twenty-first century.
This is therefore essential reading for all students and scholars of strategic and security studies, Chinese studies and international relations.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Nan Li
The Chinese Army in Domestic Politics: Factors and Phases
Ellis Joffe
China’s Evolving Civil-Military Relations: Creeping Guojiahua
Andrew Scobell
Deferring to National Interest: Arms Control and Civil-Military Relations in China
Jing-dong Yuan
Civil-Military Dynamics in Chinese Defense Industry and Arms Policy: An Approaching Tipping Point
Kathleen A. Walsh
Sorting Out the Myths about Political Commissars
You Ji
Servant of Two Masters: the PLA, the People, and the Party
Dennis J. Blasko
Company Province: Civil-Military Relations in Xinjiang
Yitzhak Shichor
China’s Expenditure for Militia and People’s Armed Police
Shaoguang Wang
The PLA and its Changing Economic Roles: Implications for
Civil-Military Relations
Thomas J. Bickford
Dual-Use Technologies, Civil-military Integration, and
China’s Defense Industry
Richard A. Bitzinger
Biography
Nan Li
