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One Belt, One Road, One Story?

Towards an EU-China Strategic Narrative

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  • © 2021

Overview

  • Undertakes a thorough empirical examination of how the belt and Road Initiative is promoting or impeding EU-China relations
  • Brings together leading scholars from China, Europe and Oceania
  • Cuts across policy, publics and media, and across history, political economy and diplomacy

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics (PSEUP)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Shaping Narratives: Contexts for Alignment

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About this book

This book explores the emerging EU-China relationship with a focus on the impact of the Belt and Road Initiative. It takes a narrative approach to understanding the EU-China relationship as a means to highlight how scholars in the EU and China interpret the narrativization of EU-China bilateral relations and to how this bilateral relationship is refracted through relations with third parties. The volume brings together scholars from China and Europe in the fields of Chinese foreign policy, EU studies, and strategic communication. The empirical focus cuts across policy, publics and media, and across history, political economy and diplomacy. The Belt and Road Initiative, alongside the other policy areas addressed in the chapters, offers ways for people in Europe and China to get to know one another in new ways, and for the EU and its member states and the Chinese state to forge new partnerships. 

Reviews

“The volume is likely to be of interest to scholars exploring approaches to SNT and may thus stimulate a broader discussion on how it may illuminate, from above as well as below, key relationships in global politics.” (Steven Langendonk, Journal of Chinese Political Science, March 10, 2021)

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK

    Alister Miskimmon

  • Department of Politics and International Relations, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, UK

    Ben O’Loughlin

  • Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

    Jinghan Zeng

About the editors

Alister Miskimmon is Head of the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. His books include Strategic Narratives: Communication Power and the New World Order and Forging the World: Strategic Narratives in International Relations (2017), both with Ben O’Loughlin and Laura Roselle.

Ben O'Loughlin is Professor of International Relations and Director of the New Political Communication Unit at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He has advised the EU, NATO, and the US and UK governments on persuasion, digital communication, and democracy.

Jinghan Zeng is Professor of China and International Studies at Lancaster University, UK. He is the author of The Chinese Communist Party's Capacity to Rule: Ideology, Legitimacy and Party Cohesion (2015). His academic papers have appeared in The Pacific ReviewJournal of Contemporary ChinaInternational AffairsJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, and Contemporary Politics among others.

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