Europe in an Era of Growing Sino-American Competition
This book investigates how Europe should position itself in an era of growing Chinese-American rivalry.
The volume explores the contemporary relationship and ongoing dynamics between three of the most powerful players in todays international relationsthe United States, China and Europe. It claims that the intensifying antagonism between Washington and Beijing requires a paradigm shift in European strategic thinking and takes a trilateral perspective in analysing key issue areas, such as trade, technology, investment, climate change, the BRI, subnational contacts, maritime security and nuclear non-proliferation. Using this analysis, the work seeks to offer original policy recommendations that respond to a number of dilemmas Europe can no longer avoid, including the trade-off between European interests and values in a harsher global environment, the question of whether Europe should align with one of the two superpowers, Europes military dependence on a US pivoting to the Asia-Pacific, and possible trade-offs between global and regional governance efforts. The key finding is that Europe must follow a much more pragmatic and independent approach to its foreign and security affairs.
This book will be of much interest to students of European Union (EU) policy, foreign policy, Chinese politics, US politics and international relations in general.
Sebastian Biba is Lecturer and Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Science of Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, and Visiting Fellow at the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University, United States.
Reinhard Wolf is Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.
Routledge Studies in European Security and Strategy
Series Editors:
Sven Biscop
Egmont Royal Institute for International Relations, Belgium
and
Richard Whitman
University of Kent, UK
The aim of this series is to bring together the key experts on European security from the academic and policy worlds and assess the state of play of the EU as an international security actor. The series explores the EU and its Member States security policy and practices in a changing global and regional context. While the focus is on the politico-military dimension, security is put in the context of the holistic approach advocated by the EU.
Europeanisation and the Transformation of EU Security Policy
Post-Cold War Developments in the Common Security and Defence Policy
Petros Violakis
EU-Japan Security Cooperation
Trends and Prospects
Edited by Emil Kirchner and Han Dorussen
European Strategy in the 21st Century
New Future for Old Power
Sven Biscop
Defence Industrial Cooperation in the European Union
The State, the Firm and Europe
Daniel Fiott
European Defence Decision-Making
Dilemmas of Collaborative Arms Procurement
Antonio Calcara
Europe in an Era of Growing Sino-American Competition
Coping with an Unstable Triangle
Edited by Sebastian Biba and Reinhard Wolf
For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/Routledge-Studies-in-European-Security-and-Strategy/book-series/SESS
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Names: Biba, Sebastian, editor, author. | Wolf, Reinhard, 1960 editor, author.
Title: Europe in an era of growing Sino-American competition : coping with an unstable triangle / edited by Sebastian Biba and Reinhard Wolf.
Description: First edition. | New York : Routledge, 2021. | Series: Routledge studies in European security and strategy | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020044899 (print) | LCCN 2020044900 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367441203 (hardback) | ISBN 9781003007746 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: EuropeForeign relations21st century. | EuropeForeign relationsUnited States. | EuropeForeign relationsChina. | United StatesForeign relationsEurope. | United StatesForeign relationsChina. | ChinaForeign relationsEurope. | ChinaForeign relationsUnited States.
Classification: LCC D2025 .E893 2021 (print) | LCC D2025 (ebook) | DDC 327.4dc23
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