ABSTRACT
This chapter's use of the structural power, structural violence concepts to consider China's insecurity extends their applicability to studies of insecurity from the peripheral state where both concepts traditionally ended analysis to the core state itself. In employing structural power as an analytical approach to China's bilateral relations with its peripheral states, this chapter has constructed a critical view of China's foreign policy that highlights the corrupting influence unequal economic exchange can have on states that lack political legitimacy, robust institutions, and sound state, society relations. While both Susan Strange and Johan Galtung identified parameters where structural power and structural violence occur, imposing the weak state model into both concepts further develops their theoretical underpinnings in that it provides additional metrics for determining vulnerability and examining influence. China's contribution to structural violence in the form of poor state, society relations in all eight case study states.
