The Transatlantic Community and China in the Age of Disruption: Partners, Competitors, Rivals [Paperback]

This volume analyzes what Chinas rise means for the transatlantic community in a new age of disruptionan age marked by great power rivalry, technological upheavals, and the diffusion of power.

The book explores how todays conditionsincluding heightened Western concerns about Chinese influence operations, Chinese efforts to manipulate critical economic interconnections and dependencies, rapid technological advances, the RussiaChina entente, and growing linkages between North Atlantic and Indo-Pacif ic securityhave forced Western actors to adopt a more differentiated approach. In this great power competition, they must decide how and where to work with China as an important partner, how to address Chinas competitive challenges, and how to address Chinas efforts to forge a set of norms and institutions to challenge the open, rules-based international system.

The book will be of key interest to students and scholars of Transatlantic Relations, International Relations, Global Governance, European Politics, Asian Security, US and EU Foreign Policy, and Sino-Western relations. It will also be of interest to think-tank researchers and policy practitioners.

Introduction??Part 1: The Return of Great Power Rivalry in an Age of Disruption??1. Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones: The United States, Europe, and China in an Age of Rivalry and Disruption??2. Challenging China: The United States and the Dilemmas of Western Leadership??3. The View from China: Perspectives on the West in the Xi Jinping Era? 4. Partners, Competitors, Rivals: Europe between America and China??Part 2: Dilemmas of Security and Order??5. NATO and China? 6. The Russia-China Entente: Implications for the Transatlantic Community??7. Governance and Norms in a New World Order: The Contest for Global Leadership??Part 3: Economic Power, the Climate Challenge, and the Search for Meaningfulls7