Security governance in East Asia and China’s response to COVID‑19
A non-state centric approach challenged the concept of security governance in response to a changed security environment, bringing fragmentation of authority and heterarchical structures into the framework. The existing studies on this approach are largely contextualized from the European experie...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146813 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | A non-state centric approach challenged the concept of security governance in
response to a changed security environment, bringing fragmentation of authority and
heterarchical structures into the framework. The existing studies on this approach
are largely contextualized from the European experience and developments in its
security architecture. This leads to the questions as to whether and how non-state
centric security governance occurs in other regions. This article contributes to the
literature by studying security governance in East Asia, where the state is a dominant feature in security governance, and through the lens of non-traditional security,
with China’s COVID-19 response as a case study. In this particular case, we fnd
that security governance that opens spaces for greater involvement of actors beyond
the state could happen, albeit in a more circumscribed manner and subject of certain
conditions. We identify three conditions that catalyze the opening of governance
spaces: when the capacity of the state is stretched to the limits, when the legitimacy
of the government is under pressure, and when there is trust between the government and other actors. |
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