China’s Elite Politics under Xi Jinping: Governance and Global Security Order

About the Monograph

The Communist Party of China (CPC), under the leadership of Xi Jinping, has been strengthening its ideological framework to increase its capacity for governance. This is crucial to the party system, as it increasingly believes it needs to respond to changes in the global order. Through ideological correction, in the form of Xi Jinping Thought, the party leadership believes it can better navigate a world in transition and emerge victorious. In other words, as the leadership theorises about the global order, elite politics under Xi Jinping is transforming. Xi is strengthening governance within both the party and state to respond to the global security order. This impacts elite politics as it navigates the changes within the Chinese political system.

Abouth the Author

Dr. M. S. Prathibha is an Associate Fellow at the East Asia Centre in MP-IDSA. She researches on China’s party politics, Nuclear policy and Strategic force modernisation of China, Chinese PLA and East Asian security dynamics. She was a Senior Scholar in Political Theory and Mandarin at School of Marxism, Beijing Normal University. She is a Member of the Editorial Board of Strategic Analysis (Routledge). She received her doctorate at Chinese Studies Division, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has Master’s in International Studies and Bachelor’s in Mathematics.