This book explores the emerging EU-China relationship with a focus on the impact of the Belt and Road Initiative. It takes a narrative approach to understanding the EU-China relationship as a means to highlight how scholars in the EU and China interpret the narrativization of EU-China bilateral relations and to how this bilateral relationship is refracted through relations with third parties. The volume brings together scholars from China and Europe in the fields of Chinese foreign policy, EU studies, and strategic communication. The empirical focus cuts across policy, publics and media, and across history, political economy and diplomacy. The Belt and Road Initiative, alongside the other policy areas addressed in the chapters, offers ways for people in Europe and China to get to know one another in new ways, and for the EU and its member states and the Chinese state to forge new partnerships.
This book explores the emerging EU-China relationship with a focus on the impact of the Belt and Road Initiative. It takes a narrative approach to understanding the EU-China relationship as a means to highlight how scholars in the EU and China interpret the narrativization of EU-China bilateral relations and to how this bilateral relationship is refracted through relations with third parties. The volume brings together scholars from China and Europe in the fields of Chinese foreign policy, EU studies, and strategic communication. The empirical focus cuts across policy, publics and media, and across history, political economy and diplomacy. The Belt and Road Initiative, alongside the other policy areas addressed in the chapters, offers ways for people in Europe and China to get to know one another in new ways, and for the EU and its member states and the Chinese state to forge new partnerships.
Undertakes a thorough empirical examination of how the belt and Road Initiative is promoting or impeding EU-China relations Brings together leading scholars from China, Europe and Oceania Cuts across policy, publics and media, and across history, political economy and diplomacy
Alister Miskimmon
China-EU relations Diplomacy One Belt One Road initiative Global trade Silk road China's economic growth EU-China shared narrative Chinese foreign policy strategic communication political economy Regional Geopolitical Order
“The volume is likely to be of interest to scholars exploring approaches to SNT and may thus stimulate a broader discussion on how it may illuminate, from above as well as below, key relationships in global politics.” (Steven Langendonk, Journal of Chinese Political Science, March 10, 2021)