Robert E. Bedeski is Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, and Program Professor Emeritus, Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives (CAPI) at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

'He has made a unique contribution to increasing our understanding of Chinese state sovereignty and state-building' - Gerald Chan, International Spectator, September 2008

• 1. Human Survival, Human Institutions, and Human Security 2. Dimensions of Human Security: Foundations in Individual Human Life 3. The Modern Sovereign Nation-State 4. Prologue to a Theory of Human Security 5. A Notational Theory of Human Security 6. Actualizing Imperial Sovereignty in Ancient China 7. Claiming Dynastic Sovereignty under the Imperial Meta-Constitution 8. Sovereignty and State-Building in Late Qing and Republican China 9. Contemporary China's Incomplete Sovereignty - Fusion, Succession, and Adoption

Robert E. Bedeski is Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, and Program Professor Emeritus, Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives (CAPI) at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

'He has made a unique contribution to increasing our understanding of Chinese state sovereignty and state-building' - Gerald Chan, International Spectator, September 2008

• 1. Human Survival, Human Institutions, and Human Security 2. Dimensions of Human Security: Foundations in Individual Human Life 3. The Modern Sovereign Nation-State 4. Prologue to a Theory of Human Security 5. A Notational Theory of Human Security 6. Actualizing Imperial Sovereignty in Ancient China 7. Claiming Dynastic Sovereignty under the Imperial Meta-Constitution 8. Sovereignty and State-Building in Late Qing and Republican China 9. Contemporary China's Incomplete Sovereignty - Fusion, Succession, and Adoption

Robert E. Bedeski is Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, and Program Professor Emeritus, Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives (CAPI) at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

'He has made a unique contribution to increasing our understanding of Chinese state sovereignty and state-building' - Gerald Chan, International Spectator, September 2008

• 1. Human Survival, Human Institutions, and Human Security 2. Dimensions of Human Security: Foundations in Individual Human Life 3. The Modern Sovereign Nation-State 4. Prologue to a Theory of Human Security 5. A Notational Theory of Human Security 6. Actualizing Imperial Sovereignty in Ancient China 7. Claiming Dynastic Sovereignty under the Imperial Meta-Constitution 8. Sovereignty and State-Building in Late Qing and Republican China 9. Contemporary China's Incomplete Sovereignty - Fusion, Succession, and Adoption