Security Relations between the European Union and China: From Convergence to Cooperation?

Over the past decade, the EU and China have expanded their relations from a dominant focus on economic and trade issues to the sphere of security. By taking a broadened definition of security, a multi-disciplinary approach, and a comparative perspective, which includes the pairing of scholars from Europe and Asia in the writing of individual chapters, the book provides an in-depth analysis of the extent to which the EU and China not only express similar threat concerns, or make declarations about joint responses, but also adopt concrete measures in the pursuance of security cooperation. In particular, the book seeks to explore a range of key themes in the field of EU-China security cooperation such as nuclear proliferation, international terrorist threats and cyber attacks. Besides providing an overview of the areas where security cooperation exists and where not, it also highlights the aspects of convergence and divergence and the reasons for their occurrence.