Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Unlikely Partners? The EU-China Strategic Partnership in a Changing World Order -- The Bilateral Dimension of Cooperation -- The Global Context -- The Purpose and Motivation Behind Looking into the EU-China Strategic Partnership -- The Disposition of the Book -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Strategic Partnerships: A New Form of International Engagement -- Strategic Partnerships and the Re-organization of the International System -- The Surge of Bilateral Partnerships -- A Significant Historical Context -- Strategic Partnerships as Descriptive and Constitutive Entities -- The Descriptive Dimension -- The Constitutive Dimension -- Strategic Partnerships in the Light of Contending Theoretical Paradigms -- Strategic Partnerships Seen from a Power Paradigm -- Strategic Partnerships Seen from a Social Perspective -- The Aims and Functions of Strategic Partnerships -- Strategic Partnerships as Vehicles of Social Interaction on the International Level -- Strategic Partnerships as Arenas for Bilateral Engagement -- The Meaning of Strategic Partnerships for the Individual Actor -- The EU and China as International Actors Seeking to Build Strategic Partnerships -- The EU -- China -- Notes -- Chapter 3: The Development of EU-China Relations -- The Establishment of Formal Relations -- Resumption of Relations: Renewed Cooperation Toward a Structured Engagement -- The Brief Honeymoon and Subsequent Awakening to a More Realistic Engagement -- The Strategic Partnership in the Wake of the Economic and Financial Crisis -- Recent Developments in EU-China Relations -- Stumbling Blocks in the EU-China Strategic Partnership -- The EU's Arms Embargo -- The Market Economy Status -- The Human Rights Dialogue -- The EU's Internal Lack of Cohesiveness.

Prospects of the Relations Between the EU and China -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Europe, China, and the Diffusion of Norms -- A Differentiation of Norms for States: Internal and External -- China and the EU: Normative Power in Comparison -- Normative Encounters in China-EU Relations -- Internal Norms Engagement: Human Rights and Sovereignty -- External Norms Engagement: Multipolarity Versus Multilateralism -- Normative Divergence, Convergence and the Making of the China-EU Strategic Partnership -- Norm Diffusion in the EU-China Strategic Partnership in Perspective -- Notes -- Chapter 5: China, Europe, and Normative Preferences on Sovereignty and Human Rights -- How Do the Chinese and Europeans See Sovereignty? -- How Do Chinese and Europeans See Human Rights? -- Where Do China and Europe Stand on the Sovereignty-Human Rights Continuum? -- When Can (or Cannot) China and Europe Stand Together on Sovereignty and Human Rights Issues? -- Standing Against Each Other: Taiwan, the Arms Embargo, Tibet, and Military Interventions -- Standing with Each Other: Hong Kong, Human Rights Dialogue, and Crises in Third Countries -- When and Why Are China and Europe Flexible on Sovereignty and Human Rights? -- Intransigence and Flexibility in EU-China Relations -- Notes -- Chapter 6: European and Chinese Perspectives on the International System -- China's Outlook on the International System -- The EU and the International System -- What Kind of Actor? China as a Player in Global Politics -- What Kind of Actor? The EU as an International Actor -- Contending Visions of Power -- China and EU's Strategic Partnership in a Multipolar System -- The EU and China as Actors in Global Security -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Relations Between the European Union and China in a Future Perspective -- The EU-China Strategic Partnership Evaluated on Three Different Levels.

Is the EU-China Strategic Partnership an Outlier? -- The Relationship Between Strategic Partnerships and the Multilateral Order -- Bolstering the Strategic Partnership: How and to What End? -- Notes -- Correction to: Unlikely Partners? -- Bibliography -- Index.

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