China's fears. What threatens the rise of China and why it should worry us
A multi-disciplinary assessment of the different challenges awaiting the new Chinese leadership after 2012
This research project, coordinated by Giovanni Andornino, looks at the multiple challenges China faces in its pursuit of a sustainable path to development.
While pundits roll out scenarios contemplating the possible threats stemming from the PRC's abrupt rise to global prominence, few analysts have engaged with an integrated evaluation of the interplay of the several dynamics - both domestic and international - capable of undermining China's security.
Security itself is all too often approached from the perspective of the West, as a public good, that advanced countries enjoy and should protect from newcomers that could possibly destabilize it.
This research project aims at looking at security - and then specifically at China's security - from a different angle.
The definition of “security” will be broadened toward a post-modern understanding, comprehensive of traditional security (geopolitical, military, conventional and strategic), non-traditional security (terrorism, separatism, fundamentalism), and human security, which puts individuals and civil society al large at the centre of attention (access to social security, corruption, health, environment).
This understanding of security is then used to assess China's conditions, trying to evaluate the challenges to its security. It is expected that the conclusions of this research should bear relevance not only for China's policymakers, but also for foreign partners of the PRC, as scenarios will be drawn contemplating the potential fallouts of a destabilized China.
Young scholars working on multiple aspects of China's politics, economics and foreign policy have joined together to conduct this research from Italy, China, France, the UK, Spain and Germany.
While pundits roll out scenarios contemplating the possible threats stemming from the PRC's abrupt rise to global prominence, few analysts have engaged with an integrated evaluation of the interplay of the several dynamics - both domestic and international - capable of undermining China's security.
Security itself is all too often approached from the perspective of the West, as a public good, that advanced countries enjoy and should protect from newcomers that could possibly destabilize it.
This research project aims at looking at security - and then specifically at China's security - from a different angle.
The definition of “security” will be broadened toward a post-modern understanding, comprehensive of traditional security (geopolitical, military, conventional and strategic), non-traditional security (terrorism, separatism, fundamentalism), and human security, which puts individuals and civil society al large at the centre of attention (access to social security, corruption, health, environment).
This understanding of security is then used to assess China's conditions, trying to evaluate the challenges to its security. It is expected that the conclusions of this research should bear relevance not only for China's policymakers, but also for foreign partners of the PRC, as scenarios will be drawn contemplating the potential fallouts of a destabilized China.
Young scholars working on multiple aspects of China's politics, economics and foreign policy have joined together to conduct this research from Italy, China, France, the UK, Spain and Germany.
