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Confucian Geopolitics

Chinese Geopolitical Imaginations of the US War on Terror

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  • Argues for a Chinese-style geopolitical tradition

  • Breaks with the US orthodoxy, which is based on a binary understanding of terrorism

  • Merges Orientalism with Chinese geopolitical imaginaries

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

About this book

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. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Guangzhou, China

    Ning An

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Confucian Geopolitics

  • Book Subtitle: Chinese Geopolitical Imaginations of the US War on Terror

  • Authors: Ning An

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2010-5

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-2009-9Published: 02 January 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-2012-9Published: 02 January 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-2010-5Published: 09 December 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 183

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Human Geography, Cultural Geography

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eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
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  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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