TY - JOUR
T1 - Security cooperation in EU-China relations
T2 - Towards convergence?
AU - Dorussen, Han
AU - Kirchner, Emil J.
AU - Christiansen, Thomas
N1 - Funding Information: This article has resulted from a research project funded by the European Union under the ERASMUS+ Lifelong Learning Programme (Grant no. 2013-3005/001-001). Earlier versions of this article were presented at the 75th Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, 6–9 Apr. 2017, Chicago, and at the ISA 2018 Annual Convention, 4–9 Apr. San Francisco. We are grateful for the valuable comments we received on these occasions. Since this article brings together the findings presented in the individual chapters of Security Relations between the European Union and China: From Convergence to Cooperation?, published by Cambridge University Press, we specially thank all contributors. We remain fully responsible for all interpretations of facts and the overall analysis. Han Dorussen is Professor of Government at the University of Essex (hdorus@essex.ac.uk). Emil J. Kirchner is Jean Monnet Professor and Coordinator of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the University of Essex (emil@essex.ac.uk). Thomas Christiansen holds a Chair in European Institutional Politics in the Department of Political Science at Maastricht University (t.christiansen@maastrichtuniversity.nl). Publisher Copyright: © 2018 Kluwer Law International BV, The Netherlands.
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - Over the past decade, the EU and China have expanded their relations beyond a focus on economic and trade issues into the sphere of security. This is particularly evident when security is seen to encompass a variety of policy domains-from traditional, military security to nontraditional human security. However, this development has not followed an even or linear path: The record of EU-China security cooperation has been varied across different policy domains, with distinct temporal trajectories. This article addresses the question of why security cooperation between the two sides has advanced in certain policy domains while having faltered in others. Based on an expert survey of European and Chinese scholars, we explore both interest-driven and experience-driven explanations. Our analysis identifies a number of key events in the development of EU-China relations that have been critical in terms of initiating and enhancing cooperation in specific domains. Overall, we find that past experience with actual cooperation, rather than declared intentions, best explains the pattern of cooperation over time.
AB - Over the past decade, the EU and China have expanded their relations beyond a focus on economic and trade issues into the sphere of security. This is particularly evident when security is seen to encompass a variety of policy domains-from traditional, military security to nontraditional human security. However, this development has not followed an even or linear path: The record of EU-China security cooperation has been varied across different policy domains, with distinct temporal trajectories. This article addresses the question of why security cooperation between the two sides has advanced in certain policy domains while having faltered in others. Based on an expert survey of European and Chinese scholars, we explore both interest-driven and experience-driven explanations. Our analysis identifies a number of key events in the development of EU-China relations that have been critical in terms of initiating and enhancing cooperation in specific domains. Overall, we find that past experience with actual cooperation, rather than declared intentions, best explains the pattern of cooperation over time.
M3 - Article
SN - 1384-6299
VL - 23
SP - 287
EP - 304
JO - European Foreign Affairs Review
JF - European Foreign Affairs Review
IS - 3
ER -