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Przegląd Europejski – European Studies Quarterly

EU Common Security and Defence Policy and China: a case study of coopetition

2020, 2020, No. 3

Boris Litwin

0000-0002-9219-5487

Andrássy University Budapest (Budapest, Hungary)

DOI

10.31338/1641-2478pe.3.20.7

Publication date

01.09.2020

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open access

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CC BY 4.0 Int.

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Social sciences

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international relations, economics and finance, communication and media studies, political science and public administration, management and quality studies, law, sociology

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English, Polish

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Abstract

With the 2019 EU–China Strategic Outlook, the EU has revalidated its dual perspective on China as cooperation partner and strategic competitor at the same time. So far, considerations of China in EU and EU Member States have primarily focused on economic questions. However, as China‘s foreign policy becomes more assertive and visible via military deployments in the EU‘s geopolitical neighbourhood, the EU needs to confront this challenge by giving appropriate and concrete political responses in a geostrategic context as well. Based on the concept of „coopetition“, this article provides an analysis and subsequent recommendations on how the EU can integrate the “China factor” in its Common Security and Defence Policy, while ensuring that a balance of cooperation and competition in EU’s China policy is retained

Keywords:

European Union,China,EU–China relations,EU Common Security and Defence Policy,EU defence integration,EU defence partnership,concept of coopetition

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