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

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.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.PanZHIMIN CHEN Jean Monnet Chair Professor at Department of International Pollã.