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Human security and the Chinese state : historical transformations and the modern quest for sovereignty /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bedeski, Robert E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
Series:Routledge contemporary China series ; 17.
Subjects:
China > Politics and government.
Social contract.
Security (Psychology) > Political aspects > China.
State, The.
Sovereignty.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Human survival, human institutions, and human security
  • Dimensions of human security : foundations in individual human life
  • The modern sovereign nation-state (MSNS)
  • Prologue to a theory of human security
  • A notational theory of human security
  • Actualizing imperial sovereignty in ancient China
  • Claiming dynastic sovereignty under the imperial meta-constitution
  • Sovereignty and state-building in late Qing and Republican China
  • Contemporary China's incomplete sovereignty : fusion, succession, and adaptation.