ABSTRACT
The chapter introduces the theoretical and methodological approach used in the volume to analyze global security discourse in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). It provides a brief overview of securitization theory and some elements of the various debates it has sparked that are relevant to the analysis. It then moves on to introduce the notion of macrosecuritization that has been developed to make sense of security speech that concerns referent objects beyond national and regional ones. The chapter ends with a discussion on the theory, or conceptual travel, that the deployment of macrosecuritization in the study of the PRC also entails.
