This major new study examines the nature of Chinese power and its impact on the
international order. Drawing on an extensive range of Chinese-language debates and …

How do regimes employ information to govern society and maintain control? Recent
scholarship argues that legibility is a fundamental component of state capacity, but the …

Security shapes everyday life, but despite a growing literature on everyday security there is
no consensus on the meaning of the “everyday.” At the same time, the research methods …

Power concentration in the hands of Xi Jinping, Chinese Communist Party General
Secretary, can be interpreted not only as a reaction to the power fragmentation and the intra …

The current Chinese foreign and national security system suffers from problems of
inefficiency, a lack of coordination and information sharing, and accountability of decision …

This article explores the political significance of “governing the nation in accordance with the
law” 依法治国 (yifa zhiguo) in the Xi Jinping era. It examines party statements and …

This article sheds light on the nature, forms and outcomes of China's diplomacy over
transboundary water resources. Water diplomacy bears unique and complex features and …

This article focuses on the institutional changes that have occurred in the foreign and
security policy realm since Xi Jinping became General Secretary of the Chinese Communist …

Although China has not formally put forward an Indo-Pacific naval strategy, the new national
defense strategy of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), Fighting Regional Informatized War …

China's establishment of a Central National Security Commission (CNSC) in late 2013 was
a potentially transformative event in the evolution of China's national security decision …