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Dr Kinzelbach has performed a valuable service to all those interested in human rights diplomacy. Not only does she provide vital, new, information on the form and content of the EUChina Human Rights Dialogues, but she also reaches sobering and well-substantiated conclusions that confirm that these dialogues do not fulfil their ostensible purpose of improving Chinas human rights record. She also suggests it is time to seek alternative approaches in this important policy sphere. This book represents a major contribution to our understanding of EUChina relations and of how human rights diplomacy is conducted in the contemporary era.

Rosemary Foot, Professor of International Relations and Sir John Swire Senior Research Fellow, St Antonys College, Oxford

Human Rights has been one of the most contentious and vexed issues in the relationship between the EU and China, marked by deep differences and the lack of an agreed common framework. In this book, Katrin Kinzelbach gives a meticulous critique of the ups and downs of the various dialogue rounds in this area between the two. She outlines the history of the talks, the drivers behind them, and their few successes and many failures. But she also looks deeper into the reasons behind why the dialogue has proved so difficult, and what this shows about both parties. Dr Kinzelbach is to be congratulated on producing such a clear, succinct and balanced treatment of an area which is dominated by much contention and misunderstanding. This stands as the definitive study of this hugely important subject.

Kerry Brown, Professor of Chinese Politics and Director of China Studies Centre, University of Sydney

Chinese diplomats have skilfully channeled much of the Wests effort to influence their countrys human rights record into formal government to government dialogues, whose proceedings are confidential. Kinzelbach has dug up information that reveals what happens behind the screen of EU foreign policy making on this important issue. She shows with admirable clarity how Chinese officials have taken advantage of European political divisions and organizational confusion to gain the upper hand over the scheduling, agendas, procedural rules, and rhetorical atmosphere of these meetings. In fascinating detail she portrays the frustration this has produced among European diplomats. Although the dialogues have been less and less productive for real human rights advances, both sides persist in holding them. For the EU they serve as a fig leaf for the lack of more effective policies. A model of objectivity and clarity, the study promotes a sophisticated understanding of UN, EU and Chinese diplomatic goals and methods. It bears important lessons for all who seek to influence a rising China.

Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Columbia University

This brilliant study by Katrin Kinzelbach is the most thorough and well-informed analysis of almost 20 years of the EUs Human Rights Dialogue with China. The book provides a rare and detailed insight into how the European Union conducts quiet human rights diplomacy. Her conclusions concerning the EUs approach towards China are devastating: the dialogue is found to be ineffective and even counter-productive.

Manfred Nowak, Professor of International Law and Human Rights, Vienna University and Austrian Chair, Visiting Professor, Stanford University

The EUs Human Rights Dialogue with China

The European Union uses a confidential, institutionalized Dialogue to raise human rights concerns with China, but little is publicly known about its set-up, its substance, its development over time and its impact.

This book provides the first detailed reconstruction and assessment of the EUs responses to human rights violations in China from 1995 to the present day. Using classified documents in the EUs historical archives and interviews with diplomats, officials and human rights experts in Europe, China and the United States, Kinzelbach lifts the veil of secrecy on the EUChina Human Rights Dialogue and provides a rare insight into how the European Union and China conduct quiet diplomacy on human rights. The book reconstructs the evolution of the Dialogue and the EUs internal debate on the merits of quiet diplomacy, and draws comparisons with the approach of other actors, notably that of the United States. In doing so, the EUs relative impact is concluded to be tenuous if not counter-productive. The book also chronicles and analyses numerous human rights concerns that were raised in the period, ranging from structural issues to individual cases.

This ground-breaking, in-depth case study will be of interest to students and scholars of international politics, human rights, international law, EU politics, especially the EUs Common Foreign and Security Policy, and Chinese politics.

Katrin Kinzelbach is associate director of the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin and visiting professor at the School of Public Policy, Central European University in Budapest.

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4	Sex Trafficking, Human Rights and Social Justice Edited by Tiantian Zheng
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6	Human Rights and the Hollow State Helen J. Delfeld
7	The EUs Human Rights Dialogue with China Quiet diplomacy and its limits Katrin Kinzelbach

The EUs Human Rights Dialogue with China

Quiet diplomacy and its limits

Katrin Kinzelbach

First published 2015
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2015 Katrin Kinzelbach

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Kinzelbach, Katrin.
The EUs human rights dialogue with China: quiet diplomacy and its
limits/Katrin Kinzelbach.
pages cm. (Routledge research in human rights; 7)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. European Union countriesForeign relationsChina. 2. China
Foreign relationsEuropean Union countries. 3. Human rightsChina.

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