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 …

In Innovate to Dominate, Tai Ming Cheung offers insight into why, how, and whether China
will overtake the United States to become the world's preeminent technological and security …

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 …

How are bureaucrats controlled by their superiors in the Chinese political system?“Leading
small groups”(领导小组) are among the most important mechanisms for integrating 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 …

China has forty major transboundary watercourses with neighbouring countries, and has
frequently been accused of harming its downstream neighbours through its domestic water …

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 …