Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

List of Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Chapter 1 Introduction: China, East Asia and the European Union—Strong Economics, Weak Politics?

Part 1 Economics

Chapter 2 Overcoming Economic Weakness in Japan and the EU: The Role of Political Entrepreneurship and the Political Economy of Reforms

Chapter 3 The Sino-EU Economic Relationship under the Sovereign Debt Crisis

Chapter 4 Trade and Economic Relationships in East Asia: Does Globalization Lead to Higher Legalization?

Part 2 Politics

Chapter 5 Weak Politics—Depoliticization as Strategic Choice: An Analysis of Chinese Priorities in Sino-EU Relations

Chapter 6 Same Name, Different Substance? Exploring the Impact of Issue Perceptions on China-EU Relations

Chapter 7 Misunderstanding and Convergence in Sino-Italian Relations During the Cold War: Implications for the Present

Chapter 8 How are Norms Resisted? Insights from China’s Engagement in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization

Part 3 Security and Geopolitics

Chapter 9 EU-Asia Security Cooperation: Security Cooperation Between the People’s Republic of China and the European Union

Chapter 10 Taking or Avoiding the Path to China-US Rivalry: European Perspectives and Responses

Chapter 11 Reconceptualizing EU-East Asia Security Cooperation: Process, Norms and the Quality of Interaction

Chapter 12 Sovereignty Over the Skies: The European Union and East Asia’s Air Defense Identification Zones

Part 4 Regional Integration and Trans-RegionalCooperation

Chapter 13 The EU Pivot Towards Southeast Asia: Between Regional Integration and Security Dynamics

Chapter 14 Asia-Europe Parliamentary Dialog: Strong Economics, Strong Politics but What Value?

Chapter 15 A Cinderella Story: The Asian Development Bankand its European Member States

Chapter 16 Concluding Remarks

Bibliography

Index