Chinese Macrosecuritization : : China's Alignment in Global Security Discourses.

• Superior document: Routledge New Security Studies
• Author: Vuori, Juha A.
• Place / Publishing House: Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2023.; Ã2024.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge New Security Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (263 pages)

This book provides a holistic picture of Chinese global security discourses, with a focus on macrosecuritizations.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Securitizing Global Concerns -- Structure of the Volume -- Notes -- 1 From Securitization to Macrosecuritization -- Securitization Theory -- What Is Securitization? -- Securitization and the 'Negative' Side of Security -- Successful Securitization and Its Consequences -- Securitization Dynamics and the Notion of Desecuritization -- Macrosecuritization -- Previous Studies On Macrosecuritization -- Theory Travel With Macrosecuritization -- Securitization in China -- Notes -- 2 Security in China -- Chinese Post-Totalitarianism -- The Party-State -- Chinese Security Concepts -- The Neologism of Safety Or Security -- Institutionalized Security Signifiers in China -- Chinese Security Concerns -- Transitioning From Comprehensive to Holistic Security -- Security and Surveillance Bureaucracies -- Security Legislation -- Epistemic Communities -- Notes -- 3 The Cold War Then and Now -- China Enters the Cold Macrosecuritization -- China Modifies Its Macrosecuritization -- Macrodesecuritization and the End of the Cold War -- Rebutting the China Threat -- Desecuritizing China's Rise -- Holistic Security and China as a Responsible International Actor -- Polarized World Structures and Macrosecuritization -- Analysis: Keeping Away From a Bipolar Macrosecuritization -- Notes -- 4 Anti-Nuclear Discourse in China -- Anti-Nuclear Macrosecuritization By Non-State and State Actors -- Anti-Nuclear Securitization In and Towards China -- China's Nuclear Weapon Policies -- Non-Proliferation and the Nuclear Ban Treaty -- China's Multilateral Non-Proliferation Diplomacy -- China's Deterrence Policies -- NFU of Nuclear Weapons By China -- Bureaucratic Logics in China's Nuclear Policies.

Anti-Nuclear Sentiments in Chinese Civil Society -- Analysis: No Anti-Nuclear Macrosecuritization -- Rather, the Normalization of Nuclear Weapons -- Notes -- 5 Climate Security With Chinese Characteristics -- Macrosecuritization of Climate Change -- Climate Politicization in China -- China's International Climate Politicization -- Chinese Views On Climate Security -- China's Position On Climate Change at the UN -- Chinese Climate Security Bureaucracy and Societal Actors -- Climate Change and China's Great Power Politics -- Analysis: From a War On Nature to Harmony Between Humans and Nature -- Note -- 6 China's War On Terror -- Macrosecuritization of the 'Global War On Terror' -- Securitizing Splittism and Religious Extremism -- Securitizing Terrorism as a Part of the Global War On Terror -- Maintaining the Securitization of Terrorism in the 2000s -- Playing Down the Campaign in the 2010s -- Escalating the Campaign in the 2010s: A Securitization Climax -- Bureaucratic Logics in the Anti-Terror Campaigns -- Effects and Uses of Securitizing Terrorism in China -- International Uses for the Macrosecuritization -- Domestic Uses of the Macrosecuritization -- Domestic Costs and Resistance Dynamics of the Securitization -- International Costs of Securitization -- Analysis: Climactic Macrosecuritization of Terrorism -- Notes -- 7 Potential Chinese Macrosecuritization Issues -- Community of a Shared Future for Humankind -- Belt and Road Initiative -- New Frontiers: Polar Regions, the Deep Seas, Outer Space, and Cyberspace -- Health Security: Pandemics and Microbial Resistance -- Poverty Alleviation and Development -- Global Development Initiative -- China's Global Security Initiative -- Analysis: Linking Non-Traditional Security Concerns Globally to Achieve Desecuritization -- Note.

8 Making Sense of China's Alignment in Security Discourses With Global Referents -- Synthesis of the Macrosecurity Discourses -- Synthesis of the Bureaucratic Elements of the Macrosecuritizations -- Universalisms and Constellations of the Macrosecuritizations -- Macrosecuritizing Actors and Dynamics -- Ontological Security, Recognition, and Identity Politics in China's Macrosecuritization -- Securing a Shared Future for Humankind By Desecuritizing Great Power Relations -- References -- Index.