Is the traditional logic by which violent conflict fosters long-run political development
universal? To help address this question, this article compares Europe with China. While …

As authoritarian governments around the world develop sophisticated technologies for
controlling information, many observers have predicted that these controls would be …

Abstract The Social Credit System (SCS) is perhaps the most prominent manifestation of the
Chinese government's intention to reinforce legal, regulatory and policy processes through …

China's economic model, commonly described as “state capitalist,” is now better
characterized as party-state capitalism, in which the political survival of the Communist Party …

Beckley demonstrates that no country is poised to upend American primacy, not
economically, not militarily, and not technologically.... The evidence he assembles should be …

In 1999, as a freshman at Peking University, I lived on the Changping campus together with
about eight hundred other social sciences and humanities majors. The campus, located on …

Over the last decade, the Chinese Communist Party has built an unprecedented surveillant
assemblage in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) with the region's Uyghur …

Can authoritarian regimes use democratic institutions to strengthen and solidify their rule?
The Chinese government has legislated some of the most protective workplace laws in the …

When and why do people obey political authority when it runs against their own interests to
do so? This book is about the channels beyond direct repression through which China's …

Abstract In 2017–18, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) changed its domestic security
strategy in Xinjiang, escalating the use of mass detention, ideological re-education, and …