The EU-China Security Paradox: Cooperation Against All Odds?

✍ Scribed by Julia Gurol

• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 222
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this enlightening analysis, Julia Gurol unpicks the complex security relations between the European Union (EU) and China. She investigates the principles, rationales and shifting dynamics of collaboration on a range of security issues, and their consequences for China, the EU and other regions. She pays particular attention to EU–China relations in the realm of anti-terrorism, anti-piracy and energy security, and disentangles their cooperation efforts in the context of increasing political and economic tensions. 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.

✦ Table of Contents

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
8 EU–China Relations on Climate and Energy Security
Introduction
Understanding climate and energy security through the eyes of China and the EU
Interests and interdependence
Mutual perceptions
Conclusion
9 The US: An Elephant in the Room for EU–China Security Relations
Introduction
EU–China–US trilateral relations
The US as a withdrawing hegemon: implications for the EU and China
Outlook on EU–China–US relations under the Biden administration
Conclusion
10 Conclusion and Outlook: The EU and China at a Crossroads
References
Index
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