Read more
China is being hailed as the rising power of the twenty-first century, bringing about dramatic global changes. But according to European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, the European Union can be seen as a new "non-imperial empire." In any case, there is no denying the rapidity with which Chinese-European relations have developed over the past twenty years. In this work, specialists from China and Europe go beyond the everyday political debates and economic rivalries to investigate the relations of these two major global players in order to enrich reciprocal understanding. Making full use of their backgrounds from a variety of fields of study, the following selected topics are tackled: - Historical Dimensions - Currency and Trade - Security, Energy, and Expansion, and - Change, Transformation, and the Future.
About the author
Michael Gehler ist Inhaber des Jean Monnet Chair für Vergleichende europäische Zeitgeschichte und die Geschichte der europäischen Integration, Leiter des Instituts für Geschichte der Stiftung Universität Hildesheim und beschäftigt sich mit deutscher, österreichischer und europäischer Geschichte im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert sowie den internationalen Beziehungen nach 1945.
Xuewu Gu ist Politikwissenschaftler. Er studierte an den Universitäten Wuhan, Köln und Bonn, promovierte 1990 in Bonn und habilitierte 1997 in Freiburg. Gu lehrte in Freiburg, Trier und Bonn, bevor er 2002 den Lehrstuhl für die Politik Ostasiens an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum übernahm. Seit Oktober 2009 ist er Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Internationale Beziehungen und Direktor des Center for Global Studies an der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. Gu ist ein international gefragter Experte für Wirtschaft, Energie, Politik und Kultur Chinas.
Summary
China is being hailed as the rising power of the twenty-first century, bringing about dramatic global changes. But according to European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, the European Union can be seen as a new “non-imperial empire.” In any case, there is no denying the rapidity with which Chinese-European relations have developed over the past twenty years.
In this work, specialists from China and Europe go beyond the everyday political debates and economic rivalries to investigate the relations of these two major global players in order to enrich reciprocal understanding.
Making full use of their backgrounds from a variety of fields of study, the following selected topics are tackled:
- Historical Dimensions
- Currency and Trade
- Security, Energy, and Expansion, and
- Change, Transformation, and the Future.
