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Breslin, Shaun (2015) Debating human security in China : towards discursive power? Journal of Contemporary Asia, 45 (2). pp. 243-265. doi:10.1080/00472336.2014.907926 ISSN 0047-2336.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2014.907926
Abstract
While the concept of human security is sometimes dismissed in China as an irrelevant and alien "Western" concept, it has been the subject of serious academic debate – particularly in the mid-2000s, when a series of crises led to a rethinking of the nature of security in and for China. But like other theories and concepts which have been largely developed outside China, human security has been "Sinicised" to reflect Chinese contexts and preferences. In the process, the emphasis on the individual human being that is normally at the heart of human security discourses is typically replaced by a focus on the collective humankind, and Chinese analyses are often packaged together with broader understandings of non-traditional security. This results in a Chinese version of the concept where the state remains a key referent point and actor – indeed, the state is the key guarantor of human security, not a threat to it. And it is this Chinese definition, so the argument goes, that Chinese practices should be judged against, and not supposed universal definitions that in reality only reflect the history and values (and interests) of Western states.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | J Political Science > JQ Political institutions (Asia, Africa, Australia, Pacific Area, etc.) | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Human security -- China | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Contemporary Asia | ||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0047-2336 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 2015 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 45 | ||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||
| Number of Pages: | 23 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 243-265 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/00472336.2014.907926 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 27 December 2015 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 27 December 2015 | ||||||
| Funder: | Seventh Framework Programme (European Commission) (FP7) | ||||||
| Grant number: | 266809 (FP7) |
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