Challenges, Influences, and Prospects of China-EU Relations The Belt and Road Initiative Case /
This dissertation uses the Belt and Road Initiative as a case study to systematically analyse the challenges, impacts, and prospects of China-EU relations. Employing various qualitative research methods, including policy document analysis, literature review, process tracing, and comparative case stu...
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| Dokumentumtípus: | Disszertáció |
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2026
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| Online Access: | http://doktori.ek.szte.hu/13144 |
| Tartalmi kivonat: | This dissertation uses the Belt and Road Initiative as a case study to systematically analyse the challenges, impacts, and prospects of China-EU relations. Employing various qualitative research methods, including policy document analysis, literature review, process tracing, and comparative case studies of Hungary and Sweden, it constructs a comprehensive theoretical framework integrating neorealist international relations theory, geoeconomics, hedging strategies, institutional balancing, and moral realism. The study presents three core arguments. First, the EU's strategic response to the Belt and Road Initiative constitutes a geoeconomic balancing strategy, where the "global gateway" is a defensive institutional balancing measure adopted by the EU to counter China's offensive institutional balancing strategy. Second, the failures within the EU's China strategy can be explained by nested hedging strategies: member states adopt different strategies based on their economic dependence and security perceptions, such as Hungary's hedging strategy and Sweden's balancing strategy. Third, the overall paradigm of contemporary China-EU relations is competitive-cooperative multilateralism, in which systemic competition and necessary cooperation coexist to address common global challenges. The findings highlight how infrastructure competition becomes a core area of structural power struggles and how a loose multipolar order leads to governance deadlock. This study contributes to international relations theory by integrating Western and Chinese perspectives. It provides policy-relevant insights into the complex interactions between the EU and China in the era of strategic competition. |
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