Fighting the Gunpowder-less War: A Comparative Study of the Conceptualization and Practice of Cultural Security in China and Saudi Arabia

Dr Yan, Xiaojun   (Principal Investigator (PI))

Mr Al-Sudairi Mohammed   (Co-Investigator)

Dr Al-Sarhan Saud Saleh   (Co-Investigator)

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Fighting the Gunpowder-less War: A Comparative Study of the Conceptualization and Practice of Cultural Security in China and Saudi Arabia

China, Cultural Governance, Cultural Security, Legitimacy, Saudi Arabia

Public Administration and Political Science,Media and Communication

Humanities & Social Sciences (H)

17613417

General Research Fund (GRF)

2017

Completed

1 To chart out the genealogies of cultural security discourse among epistemic and academic communities in China and Saudi Arabia, explain their evolution in light of changing domestic and international trends relevant to each country, and analyze the dynamics underlying the state’s adoption of this discourse. 2 To understand how states practice cultural security through a number of case studies, showcasing the multiple types of cultural security threats confronting such regimes as a result of their legitimacy matrixes, the coherence and common logic of regime responses across these disparate case studies, and the contradictory pressures facing such regimes in both protecting regime legitimacy on the one hand and upholding their modernization projects in the other. 3 Explaining how the conceptualization and practice of cultural security in these two states emanates as a response to the dialogic interaction between the regime types of China and Saudi Arabia and the international conditions they face.