Jianwei Wang is Professor and Head of the Department of Government and Public Administration and Director of the Institute of Global and Public Affairs, University of Macau. His research interests focus on Sino-American relations, East Asian security affairs, Chinese foreign policy, and Sino-Japanese relations.Weiqing Song is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Macau. His research focuses on Chinese foreign policy with respect to global governance and European politics with an emphasis on the EU and European foreign policy.

"Thoughtful, carefully-crafted and empirically-rich, this illuminating volume offers a refreshing take on a wide range of the most important issues in EU-China relations, from security, to global, political, and economic governance, to climate change...Wang and Song's book will find a prominent place within the growing body of EU-China scholarship and greatly further our understanding of the comparative development of these two rising actors and their impact on twenty-first century global politics." - Ulrich Krotz, Chair in International Relations and the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Italy

• Table of ContentsList of illustrationsPrefaceIntroduction: New Players and New Order of Global Governance; Jianwei Wang and Weiqing Song1.China-EU Relations: Rivalry Impedes Strategic Partnership; Mingjiang Li2.A Liberal Institutionalist Perspective on China-EU Relations; Thomas Christiansen 3.Social Constructivist Perspectives on China-EU Relations; Knud Erik Jørgensen and Reuben Wong4.China and the EU in the UN; Jian Junbo; Chen Zhimin5.Shaping the Agenda Jointly? China and the EU in the G20; Hongsong Liu and Shaun Breslin6.The EU and China in the WTO: What Contribution to the International Rule of Law? Reflections in Light of the Raw Materials and Rare Earths Disputes; Matthieu Burnay and Jan Wouters7.International Financial Institutions; Gerald Chan8.Different Versions of Interregionalism and ASEM's Multilateral Utility for Global Governance; Tianxiang Zhu9.Traditional Security Issues; Fulvio Attinà10.Non-traditionalSecurity Issues; Evangelos Fanoulis and Emil Kirchner11.Confronting the Climate Challenge: Convergence and Divergence between the EU and China; Yan Bo and Diarmuid Torney12.China, the EU and Global Governance in Human Rights; Gustaaf Geeraerts13.Development Policy – alternatives, challenges and opportunities; Uwe Wissenbach and Yuan WangContributor biographiesIndex

Jianwei Wang is Professor and Head of the Department of Government and Public Administration and Director of the Institute of Global and Public Affairs, University of Macau. His research interests focus on Sino-American relations, East Asian security affairs, Chinese foreign policy, and Sino-Japanese relations.Weiqing Song is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Macau. His research focuses on Chinese foreign policy with respect to global governance and European politics with an emphasis on the EU and European foreign policy.

"Thoughtful, carefully-crafted and empirically-rich, this illuminating volume offers a refreshing take on a wide range of the most important issues in EU-China relations, from security, to global, political, and economic governance, to climate change...Wang and Song's book will find a prominent place within the growing body of EU-China scholarship and greatly further our understanding of the comparative development of these two rising actors and their impact on twenty-first century global politics." - Ulrich Krotz, Chair in International Relations and the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Italy

• Table of ContentsList of illustrationsPrefaceIntroduction: New Players and New Order of Global Governance; Jianwei Wang and Weiqing Song1.China-EU Relations: Rivalry Impedes Strategic Partnership; Mingjiang Li2.A Liberal Institutionalist Perspective on China-EU Relations; Thomas Christiansen 3.Social Constructivist Perspectives on China-EU Relations; Knud Erik Jørgensen and Reuben Wong4.China and the EU in the UN; Jian Junbo; Chen Zhimin5.Shaping the Agenda Jointly? China and the EU in the G20; Hongsong Liu and Shaun Breslin6.The EU and China in the WTO: What Contribution to the International Rule of Law? Reflections in Light of the Raw Materials and Rare Earths Disputes; Matthieu Burnay and Jan Wouters7.International Financial Institutions; Gerald Chan8.Different Versions of Interregionalism and ASEM's Multilateral Utility for Global Governance; Tianxiang Zhu9.Traditional Security Issues; Fulvio Attinà10.Non-traditionalSecurity Issues; Evangelos Fanoulis and Emil Kirchner11.Confronting the Climate Challenge: Convergence and Divergence between the EU and China; Yan Bo and Diarmuid Torney12.China, the EU and Global Governance in Human Rights; Gustaaf Geeraerts13.Development Policy – alternatives, challenges and opportunities; Uwe Wissenbach and Yuan WangContributor biographiesIndex

Jianwei Wang is Professor and Head of the Department of Government and Public Administration and Director of the Institute of Global and Public Affairs, University of Macau. His research interests focus on Sino-American relations, East Asian security affairs, Chinese foreign policy, and Sino-Japanese relations.Weiqing Song is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Macau. His research focuses on Chinese foreign policy with respect to global governance and European politics with an emphasis on the EU and European foreign policy.

"Thoughtful, carefully-crafted and empirically-rich, this illuminating volume offers a refreshing take on a wide range of the most important issues in EU-China relations, from security, to global, political, and economic governance, to climate change...Wang and Song's book will find a prominent place within the growing body of EU-China scholarship and greatly further our understanding of the comparative development of these two rising actors and their impact on twenty-first century global politics." - Ulrich Krotz, Chair in International Relations and the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Italy

• Table of ContentsList of illustrationsPrefaceIntroduction: New Players and New Order of Global Governance; Jianwei Wang and Weiqing Song1.China-EU Relations: Rivalry Impedes Strategic Partnership; Mingjiang Li2.A Liberal Institutionalist Perspective on China-EU Relations; Thomas Christiansen 3.Social Constructivist Perspectives on China-EU Relations; Knud Erik Jørgensen and Reuben Wong4.China and the EU in the UN; Jian Junbo; Chen Zhimin5.Shaping the Agenda Jointly? China and the EU in the G20; Hongsong Liu and Shaun Breslin6.The EU and China in the WTO: What Contribution to the International Rule of Law? Reflections in Light of the Raw Materials and Rare Earths Disputes; Matthieu Burnay and Jan Wouters7.International Financial Institutions; Gerald Chan8.Different Versions of Interregionalism and ASEM's Multilateral Utility for Global Governance; Tianxiang Zhu9.Traditional Security Issues; Fulvio Attinà10.Non-traditionalSecurity Issues; Evangelos Fanoulis and Emil Kirchner11.Confronting the Climate Challenge: Convergence and Divergence between the EU and China; Yan Bo and Diarmuid Torney12.China, the EU and Global Governance in Human Rights; Gustaaf Geeraerts13.Development Policy – alternatives, challenges and opportunities; Uwe Wissenbach and Yuan WangContributor biographiesIndex