In the 21st century, international system has been ungoing rapid change in which
every nation state intends to get better position to compete with other actors. It is no doubt
that the United States reminded as a superpower during the Cold War era, even its position
was secured until the end of Cold War. However, due to economic globalization and
continous increase of cultural and social exchanges, states become more interdependent.
Therefore, power politics and political powers had been forced to change. The most
prominent case came from the European Union where the cross-nation cooperation reached
not only in the area of economic and commerce, but also the interaction was heading
towards higher level of political integration. The
EU¡¦ s political power together with China¡¦ s influence, as well as Russia and Japan,
will take the leading role in the global politics and balance off what was the U.S.
long-defined international system. The strong powers as mentioned welcome and
appreciate a multipolar system that helps to secure nation¡¦ s survival and interests,
bringing nation¡¦ s power to the peak. This paper examines the foreign relations between
China and the EU in light of transition in international system and interdependent theories.
In doing so, the paper will also explore how the two strong actors interact from lower
politics to higher politics such as political, strategic dialogue and cooperation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0909104-125632 |
| Date | 09 September 2004 |
| Creators | Shih, Chieh-Hui |
| Contributors | none, Shihh-Hsiung Chow, none |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0909104-125632 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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