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Vo1. 38, No. 5, September/October 2020

Abstract

3 On Public Attribute of Energy Security and the Construction of
Energy Security Community
WU Lei and XU Jian
[Abstract] Energy resources are considered “a gift of nature” to human society
which should be shared, like all other public resources, by all countries and peoples.
To safeguard this entitlement is what energy security is all about. Given that energy
security is, in its essence, a public good, highlighting the public attribute of energy
security will highly contribute to its continuous improvement as well as the world
economy and human well-being. The public attribute of international energy security
has become increasingly salient, ranging from national energy security, regional
energy security to global energy security. As changes in the characteristics of the
public attribute of international energy security have created objective conditions for
the formation of an “energy security community”, so all actors on the world stage
shall reach a consensus and make concerted efforts to build such a community. To
achieve this goal, it is advisable to facilitate regional economic integration, enhance
the community awareness of members of the regional economic integration
organizations, establish energy security as another firm foothold in realizing regional
integration, and further improve relevant international organizations and
mechanisms. Proactive efforts should be made to progressively construct the
international energy security community at different levels through the path of logic
“intergovernmentalism-transnationalism-supranationalism” as well as the vertical
integration via functionalism.
[Keywords] energy resources, energy security, public attributes, public goods,
energy security community
[Authors] WU Lei, Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor, Institute of International
Relations, Yunnan University (Kunming, 650091); XU Jian, Ph.D. Candidate,
Institute of International Relations, Yunnan University, Lecturer at Yunnan
University of Finance and Economics (Kunming, 650091).

29 The Era of Synthetic Biology: Biosafety, Biosecurity and Governance
PENG Yaojin
[Abstract] Synthetic biology, one of the most promising fields of frontier biology,
has not only introduced the concept of engineering into biological research and
development but also incorporated multidisciplinary concepts, methods and tools
from other fields. Therefore, synthetic biology is able to design, modify or create
novel or specialized biological systems or organisms, which holds untold promise
for applications with the great possibility of improving many aspects of human life.
However, as a typical dual-use research field, the development of synthetic biology
has been accompanied by a series of the potential biosafety and biosecurity risks,
which may not only wreak havoc on humans, animals, plants and the ecological
environment but also pose severe threats to national security. The existing

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