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Journal of International Security Studies

security governance practices: changing traditional notions of security and
establishing an overall national security outlook; strengthening national security
education and heightening subject awareness of security governance; clarifying job
responsibilities and laying a solid foundation for central state organs to perform their
duties.
[Keywords] Overall National Security Outlook, security governance, diversification
of governance subjects, rule by law
[Author] LI Wenliang, Professor and Director of the Graduate School, University of
International Relations (Beijing, 100091).

70 Integration between Domestic and International Factors Concerning
National Security Governance: A Case Study of China’s Combat against
East Turkistan Terrorist Forces

WANG Hongwei

[Abstract] National security is a dynamic and evolving concept. In the modern sense,
it originates from nation-states in the industrial society. This concept is centered on
nation-states and can be very broadly characterized by the emphasis on external
security. At present, China is undergoing a transformation from industrial society to
post-industrial society. Under the influence of economic globalization, national
security risks have been featured by a high degree of complexity and uncertainty
with a blurred boundary between domestic security and international security. The
overall national security outlook is a systematic and holistic concept in line with the
characteristics of the times when China is becoming a post-industrial society. This
concept is a pluralistic, multi-layered, structural and holistic one that emphasizes the
integration of internal security with external security, homeland security with
people’s security, traditional security with non-traditional security, development
issues with security issues, China’s own security with common security. As an
essential component of national security, combating East Turkistan terrorist forces
will present a new prospect under the framework of overall national security outlook.
Now that East Turkistan terrorist forces in the post-industrial era takes on such
distinctive features as loose organization, ideological radicalization, virtualization of

activities, global linkage, risk motilities and behavioral uncertainties, China’s
anti-terrorism mode, facing such new challenges, should transform itself from
“control” to “governance”. By coordinating national governance and global

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