Confucian Geopolitics: Chinese Geopolitical Imaginations of the Us War on Terror

ISBN-13: 9789811520129 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 183 str.

Ning An

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Critical geopolitics.- Chapter 3. Confucianism, Chinese geopolitics and terrorism.- Chapter 4. Methodology.- Chapter 5. Chinese discourses of terrorism: a geopolitical analysis of Chinese newspapers.- Chapter 6. Reading terrorism and the US in Chinese newspapers: a geopolitical analysis of audience imaginations.- Chapter 7. Geopolitical visions from the mass Chinese? Internet discourses of terrorism and the US.- Chapter 8. Conclusions.

Blurb

This book presents an essential non-western geopolitical landscape and draws on the conceptual framework of critical geopolitics to discuss the views on terrorism held by various groups of Chinese people, including the elite, middle class, and masses. After investigating these views, the book posits that these Chinese geopolitical imaginaries cannot be fully understood using the extant geopolitical theories, including communism, nationalism, and realism. 

Accordingly, it subsequently seeks to adapt the Confucian geopolitical idea in order to theorize Chinese geopolitics. By doing so, the book reintroduces the historically embedded but long-ignored traditional Chinese political geography philosophies (in particular Confucian thinking) into efforts to explain Chinese geopolitics. In this regard, it promotes a specific and importantly Confucianism-based understanding of international security politics. The geopolitical model provided can also help to explain Chinese views on other major geopolitical issues.