The EU-China security paradox : cooperation against all odds? /
In this enlightening analysis, Julia Gurol unpicks the complex security relations between the European Union (EU) and China. Systematic and accessible, this is an essential guide to the past, present and future of one of the world's most important, yet most complicated, security relationships.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Bristol University Press,
2022.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- The Eu-China Security Paradox: Cooperation Against All Odds?
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of abbreviations
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The EU and China in a Changing International Environment
- Introduction
- Main arguments and structure of the book
- The level of analysis: region-to-state relations
- Setting the scene: the evolution of EU-China relations
- Phase 1: the EU-China 'convergence myth'
- Phase 2: from 'honeymoon' to deepening divergences
- Phase 3: convergence, divergence and the vital space in between
- Security as a policy field in EU-China relations
- Conclusion
- 2 Analytical Framework: Towards Multidimensionality
- Introduction
- Embracing messiness: (non- )cooperation in international politics
- Theorizing cooperation in international politics
- Rationalist reading of (international) cooperation
- Constructivist reading of (international) cooperation
- Towards multidimensionality: conceptualizing (non- )cooperation
- Central concepts in the analysis of EU-China security cooperation
- Complex interdependence
- Economic interests and commercial preferences
- Identity and mutual perceptions
- Convergent framing and understanding of the problem
- Data collection: researching 'security' in sensitive settings
- Conclusion
- 3 The EU's and China's Foreign and Security Policy Principles
- Introduction
- Sovereignty versus integration
- Principled versus Chinese multilateralism
- Good governance versus 'China first'
- Conclusion
- 4 The EU and China on the Global Stage: Interests and Interdependence
- Introduction
- Temporal pattern I: growing interdependence
- Temporal pattern II: changing economic interests
- The Chinese perspective: security cooperation and soft power
- The EU perspective: containment through cooperation
- Conclusion
- 5 Framing and Perceptions in EU-China Security Relations
- Introduction
- Understanding security through the eyes of China and the EU
- Scope of the EU's and China's definition of 'security'
- Salience attached to 'security' by the EU and China
- Target of security threats
- Institutional responsibility
- Mutual perceptions and role conceptions
- China's role in international security governance
- China's perceptions of the EU as a security actor
- The EU's role in international security governance
- The EU's perception of China as a security actor
- Conclusion
- 6 EU-China Relations on Anti-Terrorism
- Introduction
- Understanding terrorism through the eyes of China and the EU
- Interests and interdependence
- Mutual perceptions
- Conclusion
- 7 EU-China Relations on Maritime Security and Anti-Piracy
- Introduction
- Understanding anti-piracy through the eyes of China and the EU
- Interests and interdependence
- Mutual perceptions
- Conclusion