“To condense Ghiselli’s intricate argument, drivers of China’s interest protection activities are: the tendency of military and security instruments to follow economic activity; unpredicted and episodic crises such as the need to suddenly evacuate about 36,000 imperilled nationals from civil-war torn Libya in March 2011; the interplay of domestic bureaucratic interests.”
Prof. David Lampton reviewed the book “Protecting China’s Interests Overseas” by Andrea Ghiselli (T.wai & Fudan University) for The China Quarterly.
Research Fellow
Andrea Ghiselli is a non-resident Research Fellow at T.wai, and serves as the Head of Research of the ChinaMed Project. He is also a Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Exeter.
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