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GETTING A NEW BLANKET: CHINA’S CONCEPTUALIZATION OF “SECURITY”
IN THE POST-DENG XIAOPING ERA
by
Ian Cameron Forsyth
__________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS)
August 2010
Copyright 2010 Ian Cameron Forsyth
Object Description
| Title | Getting a new blanket: China’s conceptualization of “security” in the post-Deng Xiaoping era |
| Author | Forsyth, Ian Cameron |
| Author email | ian4forsyth@yahoo.com; iforsyth@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | International Relations |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2010-05-03 |
| Date submitted | 2010 |
| Restricted until | Restricted until 03 Feb. 2011. |
| Date published | 2011-02-03 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Lynch, Daniel C. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
English, Robert D. Cooper, Eugene |
| Abstract | In my dissertation, "Getting a New Blanket: China’s Conceptualization of Security in the Post-Deng Xiaoping Era" I examine the debate of what form the PRC’s rise will take in the future. In grappling with this issue, I look at how this rising power is defining its national security threats. Consequently, I approached this dissertation with the goal of examining of how the PRC leadership is defining – and even not defining – its national security threats. While traditional, realist/materialist approaches to China’s definition of threats to national security have merit, so too do non-traditional, constructivist approaches. As such, I seek to examine the influence that national security ideas and theories have had in influencing contemporary PRC national security policies. Given the value and potential impact of such a theory on a state’s national security policies, I chose to examine whether the PRC scholarly community is cognizant of the content of these theories, how widespread and influential they are among academicians and policy analysts, and whether there is an observable influence of these theories on PRC national security policies. The findings reveal that although the PRC’s scholars are cognizant of the issues in COPRI’s Comprehensive Security, the PRC leaders’ national security policies are still predominantly attributed to traditional security theory, definitions, and dynamics. The findings also reveal that while the PRC is exhibiting constructivist tendencies by securitizing non-traditional security issues, the rationales behind these securitizations are borne of realist purposes.; Overall, this project contributes to debates on the nature of the introduction of new theories of foreign policy into a country’s academic and policy-making communities, as well how the PRC has been developing and implementing its policies of national security since the early 1990s. It demonstrates through observation, assessment, and analysis that Realism and Realist assumptions still dominate the PRC security-policy-making process. Yet it also demonstrates that non-Realist assumptions and policies are growing and that the PRC is securitizing certain non-traditional security issues, which supports the intellectual value of COPRI’s comprehensive security, and other non-Realist images. This project also points to further research that can be done on the issue of whether the PRC is undergoing a peaceful revolution in its democratization process, whether reforming its currency is a securitized issue, and how and under what circumstances issues are de-securitized. |
| Keyword | China; security |
| Geographic subject (country) | China |
| Coverage date | 1992/2007 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3260 |
| Rights | Forsyth, Ian Cameron |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Forsyth-3951 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume17/etd-Forsyth-3951.pdf |
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| Full text | GETTING A NEW BLANKET: CHINA’S CONCEPTUALIZATION OF “SECURITY” IN THE POST-DENG XIAOPING ERA by Ian Cameron Forsyth __________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS) August 2010 Copyright 2010 Ian Cameron Forsyth |
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