The Routledge Handbook of EU-China Relations

Professor Wei Shen is the only Jean Monnet Chair in EU-China Relations, Director of Lancaster University Confucius Institute, he is an expert on the social dimension of bilateral partnership; Professor Gottwald, Dean of Faculty of East Asian Studies at Bochum University, is a specialist on the East Asian Politics and Asia’s financial and economic relations with Europe; Professor Brown directs University of Sydney’s China Studies Centre, one of the largest and reputable institutions on China. He has strong policy making experiences, being a former British diplomat and researcher at Chatham House; Professor Cottey is strongly engaged within security studies, holds the Jean Monnet Chair in European Political Integration and heads the Department of Government at University College Cork.

Introduction: The Many Facets of a Comprehensive Partnership

1 China and Europe from Marco Polo to Deng Xiaoping

2 The Study of China –EU Relations: Institutionlisation and Differentiation

3 Exchange, cooperation and conflict between the two partners: an overview

4 Who, where and how?: The Overall Structure and Framework of China-EU Relations

Part I: High Politics

5 The China-EU Strategic Partnership: from honeymoon to couple counselling

6 China, the EU and MES

7 China, the EU, Taiwan, Tibet and the Arms Embargo

8 China, the EU and Human Rights

9 China, the EU and traditional threats to security

10 China, the EU and new threats to security

Part II: Sectoral Cooperation

11 The Amazing Jungle of Sectoral Dialogues

12 China, the EU and Technical Cooperation

13 China, the EU and Migration

14 China, the EU and Urbanisation

Part III: Economic Cooperation

15 China, the EU and Trade Relations

16 China, the EU and Financial Cooperation

17 China, the EU and Product Standards

18 China, the EU and Innovation

Part IV: Legal Aspects of EU-China Relations

19 China, the EU and Intellectual Property Rights

20 China’s legal reform and EU’s role

21 Legal environment for foreign investors

22 China, the EU and rule of law

Part V: EU-China and the Global Environmental Challenges

23 China, the EU and Green Technology

24 China, the EU and Renewable Energy

25 China, the EU and Green House Gas Emission

26 China, the EU and Climate Change Negotiation

Part VI: EU-China and Regional Integration

27 China, the EU and ASEAN

28 China, the EU and ASEM

29 China, the EU and BRICS

30 China, the EU and Africa

31 China, the EU and 16+1

Part VII: China, the EU and Global Governance

32 China and the EU in the United Nations

33 China, the EU and Bretton Woods

34 China the EU and the G20

35 China, the EU and Non-Proliferation

Part 8 People to People

36 China, the EU and civil society

37 China, the EU and party to party

38 China, the EU and think tanks

39 China, the EU and academic cooperation Conclusion