Routledge Handbook of Chinese Security / Edition 1

by Lowell Dittmer, Maochun Yu

Overview

Located in the center of Asia with one of the largest land frontiers in the world and 14 neighbors whose dispositions could not easily be predicted, China has long been obsessed with security. In this handbook, an internationally renowned team of contributors provide a comprehensive and systematic analysis of contemporary thinking about Chinese national security. Chapters cover the PRC's historical, ideological and doctrinal heritage related to security, its security arrangements and policies targeting key regions and nations of the world, the security aspects of the PRC's ground, air, sea, space and cyber forces, as well as the changing and expanding definition and scope of China's security theory and practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415855433
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/27/2015
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Lowell Dittmer is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Maochun Yu is Professor of East Asia and Military History at the United States Naval Academy.

Table of Contents

I. Chinese national security A.Historical legacy of Chinese security policy from the imperial era (tributary states, realism (Sun Zi) vs. idealism (Confucius) on strategic thinking, etc. B. China’s revolutionary legacy and its impact on security policy (revolutionary experience, Marxist-Leninist –Maoist ideology) C. Political-Economic Dimension D. Non-Traditional Security II. Geostrategic Perspectives A. The Great Powers 1. China and the US 2. China and Russia 3. China and Japan4. China and South Asia B. Regional Security 1. China and the Developing World 2. The Arctic Region 3. The Korean Peninsula 4. The Taiwan Strait C. Collective Security 1. The United Nations 2. European Union 3. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization 4. Southeast Asia/ASEAN III. China’s Security Forces A. The PLA: Mission, equipment, and contingent war plans of china’s land-based forces 1.The PLA Air Force: Mission, equipment, contingent war plans 2. The PLA Navy: Mission, equipment, war plans 3. China's Nuclear Strategy and the Second Artillery Corps B. Space, ASAT C. Cybersecurity