ABSTRACT
Security, especially within the nation and state political framework, has gained a worldwide acceptance. Focusing on theories of national security in China, Liu (2001) divides the notion of security into two dimensions: sovereignty-related concerns and nonsovereigntyconcerns. Sovereignty includes the concepts of a nation’s right to state survival, multilateral political relationships with other countries, opportunity for development, and the defi nition of national boundaries. The nonsovereignty dimension includes the balance of the natural environment, the guarantee of energy supplies, the health of the fi nancial sector, the harmony within the nation’s society, and all aspects of culture as well as their related “industries” and activities.
