Remaking Global Order: The Evolution of Europe-China Relations and its Implications for East Asia and the United States

by Nicola Casarini

Overview

Relations between the European Union and China have grown at a sustained pace across the board in recent times, transforming the relationship from one of previous neglect into a matter of global strategic significance. This book offers an examination of the evolution of contemporary EU-China relations in the economic, technological and high politics dimensions, including implications of the high-tech and security-related elements of the relationship (space and satellite navigation cooperation; advanced technology transfers; arms sales, including the proposal to lift the EU arms embargo on China) for the United States and its East Asian allies. The analysis of EU-China relations is placed in the context of evolving dynamics in transatlantic relations on the one hand, and East Asia's major powers' changing security perceptions on the other. With this approach, this study intends to provide the reader with a better understanding of the global significance acquired by Sino-European relations, while also raising the question as to whether, and to what extent, the promotion of EU space and defence interests in China has made the EU a novel strategic factor in East Asia. This book contributes to current debates on the emerging global order, including discussions of how European and Chinese policy makers would perceive the post-Cold War international system, evaluate the place and role of their countries in it, and appraise the policies to be adopted to maintain global competitiveness in key strategic industrial sectors and increase political autonomy in an international environment characterised by US primacy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191609732
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	09/03/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Nicola Casarini is currently Marie Curie Research Fellow in the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He was previously Jean Monnet post-doctoral Fellow at the EUI and Visiting Fellow at the European Union Institute for Security Studies in Paris. He holds a PhD in international relations from the London School of Economics. He has published works on EU-China and EU-East Asia relations and co-edited (with Costanza Musu) the book European Foreign Policy in an Evolving International System: The Road towards Convergence.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• PART I: Evolution
• 1: From Cold War Constraints to New Possibilities
• 2: Widespread Engagement
• 3: The Interplay Of Business And Politics
• PART II: Balancing
• 4: Techno-political Partnership
• 5: Space Cooperation
• 6: The Chinese Arms Embargo Affair
• PART III: IMPLICATIONS
• 7: The EU And East Asia's Strategic Balance
• 8: Global Concert of Democracies?
• 9: Back to the Future