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Human Security and the Chinese State: Historical Transformations and the Modern Quest for Sovereignty book cover

1st Edition

Human Security and the Chinese State Historical Transformations and the Modern Quest for Sovereignty

By Robert Bedeski Copyright 2007
208 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge
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Offering a fresh and unique approach to surveying the historical transformations of the Chinese state, Human Security and the Chinese State focuses on human security in contrast with the twenty-first century obsession with national security. Building upon Hobbes' Leviathan, Robert Bedeski demonstrates how the sovereignty of the state reflects primary human concerns of survival, indeed, that... Read more

1. Human Survival, Human Institutions, and Human Security  2. Dimensions of Human Security: Foundations in Individual Human Life  3. The Modern Sovereign Nation-State  4. Prologue to a Theory of Human Security  5. A Notational Theory of Human Security  6. Actualizing Imperial Sovereignty in Ancient China  7. Claiming Dynastic Sovereignty under the Imperial Meta-Constitution  8. Sovereignty and State-Building in Late Qing and Republican China  9. Contemporary China's Incomplete Sovereignty - Fusion, Succession, and Adoption

Biography

Robert E. Bedeski is Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, and Program Professor Emeritus, Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives (CAPI) at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

'He has made a unique contribution to increasing our understanding of Chinese state sovereignty and state-building' - Gerald Chan, International Spectator, September 2008
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