Conceptual gaps in China-EU relations : global governance, human rights and strategic partnerships / edited by Zhongqi Pan, professor in international relations, Fudan University, China.

xvii, 246 pages ; 22 cm.

China and Europe have few political values in common, even though they employ the same value-laden concepts in their political discourse. Chinese-European disputes over issues from Tibet to human rights, from market economy status to the arms embargo, from Africa to Iran are reflected, to a large extent, in their perceptual gaps on such political concepts as sovereignty, human rights, strategic partnership, multilateralism, and global governance. The authors analyze how differently China and Europe interpret the same political concepts, to examine what implications of their conceptual gaps may have on China-EU relations, and thus to discover how best to manage and bridge them.

English

March 12, 2013

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-240) and index.