One Belt, One Road, One Story? : Towards an EU-China Strategic Narrative.: Towards an EU-China Strategic Narrative. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: Miskimmon, Alister; O'Loughlin, Ben; Zeng, Jinghan, 1987-
• Contents: Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- How Do We Analyse Strategic Narrative? -- Plan of the Chapters -- References -- Part I Shaping Narratives: Contexts for Alignment -- 2 The EU's Struggle for a Strategic Narrative on China -- Introduction -- Theoretical Framework: Strategic Narratives -- Can Relations with China Enable a New EU Narrative? Analysing Alignment Potential -- Analysis 1: Issue Narratives -- Analysis 2: Identity Narratives -- Analysis 3: System Narratives -- Conclusion -- References 3 Framing China-EU Sub-regional Cooperation: The Elusive Pursuit of Normative Resonance? -- Introduction -- China Goes Sub-regional -- The EU's Normative Claims -- China's Pragmatic Framing -- Conclusions -- References -- 4 Reconstructing Geography, Power and Politics in the Belt and Road Initiative -- Introduction -- From Rings of Fire to Rings of Peace: Geographical Specificities in the BRI -- Balancing the Power Asymmetry: No Unipolar Moment for China -- Legitimizing the BRI: Performance, Principles and Procedures -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Evaluating Narratives: Analytical Tools 5 The Paradoxes Between Narrator and Audience in the China's Narrative of Belt and Road Initiative -- Part I: Views on the Narrator, the Narrative, and Its Aims -- Views on the Cooperation with China-The Narrative Itself -- Views on the Goals Behind This Initiative-The Aims of China's Narrative -- Views on the Chinese Government-The Narrator Itself -- Part II: The Conditions Under Which China as the Narrator and Europe as the Audience -- The Context for the Communication Between Narrator and Audience -- The Narrator's Methodology of Promotion Part III: Paradoxes Between China as the Narrator and Europe as the Audience -- Part IV: The Institutional Gap Behind the Paradoxes -- References -- 6 China's Belt and Road Initiative in the European Media: A Mixed Narrative? -- Introduction -- Contextualizing the Strategic Narratives of BRI -- Data Collection and Analytical Approach -- Media Narrative of the BRI as a Policy Issue -- Media Narrative of BRI on China's Role in the World System -- Media Narrative of BRI About China's Identity -- Conclusions -- References -- 7 Chinese Strategic Narratives of Europe Since the European Debt Crisis Change of Narratives -- Content of the Narrative-Identity -- Content of the Narrative-System -- Content of the Narrative-Issues -- Two Cases -- China Saving Europe -- Belt and Road Initiative -- Assessment -- References -- 8 Choosing the Better Devil: Reception of EU and Chinese Narratives on Development by South African University Students -- Introduction -- African Perceptions of Development Partners: Attitudes Versus Narratives -- South Africa's Balancing Act -- Methodology -- The Q Approach -- Set-Up of the Study -- Findings -- View 1: Cautious Embrace of the EU, Distrust of China
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 327.4051; Diplomatic relations; European Union countries -- Foreign relations -- China; China -- Foreign relations -- European Union countries; China; European Union countries; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030531539; 3030531538
• Related ISBNs: 303053152X; 9783030531522
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