Conceptual Gaps in China-EU Relations: Global Governance, Human Rights and Strategic Partnerships

The contributors attempt to look into how China and Europe differently interpret political concepts such as: sovereignty, soft power, human rights, democracy, stability, strategic partnership, multilateralism/multipolarization, and global governance, to examine what implications of their conceptual gaps may have on China-EU relations.

Table of Contents:
Exploring the Conceptual Gaps in China-EU Relations; Z.Pan PART I: GENERAL DIMENSION: SOVEREIGNTY AND SOFT POWER Sovereignty in China-EU Relations: The Conceptual Gap and Its Implications; Z.Pan Diversity, Pragmatism, and Convergence: China, the European Union and the Issue of Sovereignty; J.Gottwald  & N.Duggan Conceptual Gap on Soft Power between China and Europe and its Impacts on Bilateral Relations; Z.Chen  & L.Song China and the EU: Conceptual Gaps in Soft Power; A.Michalski PART II: BILATERAL DIMENSION: HUMAN RIGHTS, DEMOCRACY, STABILITY, AND STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP The Conceptual Gap on Human Rights in China-Europe Relations; C.Zhang Europe, China and Expectations for Human Rights; D.Freeman  & G.Geeraerts The EU and China's Perceptions of Democracy and Their Impacts on China-EU Relations; S.Weil  & Y.Jing Conceptual Gaps on Stability in Chinese and European Contexts; C.Ding Stability and Change: The EU, China and Perceptions of Stability; D.Freeman Conceptual Differences of Strategic Partnership in EU-China Relations; M.U.Stumbaum  & W.Xiong PART III: MULTILATERAL DIMENSION: MULTILATERALISM/MULTIPOLARIZATION AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE Multipolarity and Multilateralism as International Norms: The Chinese and European Perspectives; X.Zhang China-EU Understandings of the International System: 'Multipolarization', 'Multilateralism' …and Beyond?; D.Scott Conceptual Gaps on Global Governance between China and the EU; E.Gross  & J.Jian Managing the Conceptual Gaps in China-EU Relations; Z.Pan

About the Author :
ZHIMIN CHEN Jean Monnet Chair Professor at Department of International Politics, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, Shanghai, China CHUN DING Professor at School of Economics and director of Center for European Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai, China NIALL DUGGAN Research Fellow at Department of East Asian Politics, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany DUNCAN FREEMAN Senior Research Fellow at Brussels Institute of Contemporary China Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium GUSTAAF GEERAERTS Professor and Director at Brussels Institute of Contemporary China Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium JORN-CARSTEN GOTTWALD Professor and Chair in East Asian Politics at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany JUNBO JIAN Research Fellow at Center for European Studies and Institute of International Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. YIJIA JING Professor at School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, Shanghai, China ANNA MICHALSKI Senior Lecturer at Department of Politics, Uppsala University, Sweden ZHONGQI PAN Professor at Department of International Politics, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, Shanghai, China DAVID SCOTT Lecturer at Department of Politics and History, Brunel University, UK LILEI SONG Lecturer at School of Politics and International Relations, Tongji University, Shanghai, China MAY-BRITT STUMBAUM Head of the NFG Research Group 'Asian Perceptions ofthe EU' at Free University of Berlin, Germany STEFANIE WEIL PhD student at Brussels Institute of Contemporary China Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium WEI XIONG Associate Professor at Department of Diplomacy, China Foreign Affairs University, Beijing, China CHI ZHANG First Secretary at Department of European Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China XIAOMING ZHANG Professor at School of International Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China