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This book explores EU-China security cooperation across a range of key issues.
List of contents
1. EU-China security cooperation in context Emil J. Kirchner, Thomas Christiansen and Han Dorussen; 2. Chinese and EU views of military security: crafting cooperation Simon Duke and Reuben Wong; 3. Regional solutions for regional conflicts? The EU, China and their respective neighbourhoods Thomas Diez, Eva Scherwitz and See Seng Tan; 4. Aims versus deeds: EU-China cooperation in nuclear non-proliferation Nicola Casarini and Xinning Song; 5. Terrorism and organized crime: common concerns but different interests Raphael Bossong and Leslie Templeman Holmes; 6. Chinese and EU climate and energy security policy Yan Bo, Katja Biedenkopf and Zhimin Chen; 7. Competing or converging claims on international order? The EU, China and human security Sebastian Harnisch and Kai He; 8. Civil protection: identifying opportunities for collaboration Han Dorussen, Jin Ling and Evangelos Fanoulis; 9. Cyber security and EU-China relations Sebastian Bersick, George Christou and Yi Shen; 10. The economic security dimension of the EU-China relationship: puzzles and prospects Gustaaf Geeraerts and Huang Weiping; 11. Is securitizing migration a mandatory choice? Lessons from the EU and China Meng-Hsuan Chou, Els van Dongen and Harlan Koff; 12. Against the odds: (considerable) convergence and (limited) cooperation in EU-China security relations Thomas Christiansen, Emil J. Kirchner and Han Dorussen.
About the author
Emil J. Kirchner is Jean Monnet Professor and Coordinator of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the University of Essex. His research and publications deal with EU security policy and EU-Asian relations.Thomas Christiansen holds a Chair in European Institutional Politics at Maastricht University, the Netherlands, and is also part-time professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, Florence. He has published widely on different aspects of European integration.Han Dorussen is Professor of Political Science at the University of Essex and has published widely on trade and conflict, peacekeeping operations, and the governance of post-conflict societies, civil protection, and policy convergence in the European Union.
Summary
Over the past decade, the EU and China have expanded their relations beyond a focus on economic and trade issues to the sphere of security. This book analyses the extent to which the EU and China express similar threat concerns and adopt concrete measures in the pursuance of security cooperation.
