Sebastian Santander and Antonios Vlassis, "The EU in Search of Autonomy in the Era of Chinese Expansionism and COVID-19 Pandemic", Global Policy, January 2021

Sebastian Santander and Antonios Vlassis, "The EU in Search of Autonomy in the Era of Chinese Expansionism and COVID-19 Pandemic", Global Policy, January 2021.

Abstract: 

Given the global changes created by China’s expanding international influence, increasingly intense Sino–American competition and the growing multi-polarisation of the international political economy, is there any specific place that the European Union can hope to occupy? For tentative answers to this question, this analysis of Chinese economic expansionism aims to highlight the rationale behind the EU’s foreign policy action and to explore how this expansionism has impacted on the preservation of the European unity and whether Chinese economic power has undermined integration and triggered disunity within the EU. We look at the period starting in 2013, the year when China launched its ‘New Silk Road’ initiative, right up to the global lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1758-5899.12899 

New publication: Thierry Kellner and Sophie Wintgens (Eds.), China-Latin America and the Caribbean: Assessment and Outlook, London, Routledge, "Routledge Contemporary Asian Societies", 2021, 288 p.

This book assesses the political, economic and geopolitical dynamics that China’s presence has initiated throughout Latin America and the Caribbean between 2008 and 2020.

Written by experts across three continents, contributions to this edited volume explore the bilateral relations that China has developed with almost all Latin American and Caribbean countries, charting both the benefits they have brought and the problems that these relations have created for local actors. The book analyses the emergence of new forms of ‘dependence’, considers issues such as the existence of a deindustrialisation phenomenon throughout Latin America and ultimately questions whether China and the United States are engaged in a zero-sum game in the region. It also investigates challenges that the densification of the web of China’s relations and exchanges with LAC countries pose; not only to the United States and European countries, as traditional partners of these states, but also to Latin American regionalism.

Including an extensive set of case studies and local, regional and global-level analysis, China-Latin America and the Caribbean provides an empirically rich resource for students and scholars of Chinese foreign and economic policy, Latin America, the Caribbean and wider geopolitics.

About the editors: 

Thierry Kellner is Doctor in International Relations at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. He is Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He is associated with several ULB research centres (REPI, EASt, OMAM, CECID, IEE) and the Group for Research and Information on Peace and Security (GRIP, Brussels).

Sophie Wintgens (PhD) is Lecturer at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and at the Centre d’études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). She is also associated with several ULB (CEVIPOL, AmericaS) and ULiège (CEFIR) research centres.

ISBN: 9780367770341
Year of publication: 2021
Number of pages: 288

Sebastian Santander & Antonios Vlassis, « Le régionalisme à l’épreuve des grandes puissances. L’Union européenne face à la Chine et aux États-Unis », Fédéralisme Régionalisme [En ligne], Volume 20 : 2020, Trente ans de dynamiques fédérales et régionales

Sebastian Santander & Antonios Vlassis, "Le régionalisme à l’épreuve des grandes puissances. L’Union européenne face à la Chine et aux États-Unis", Fédéralisme Régionalisme [En ligne], Volume 20 : 2020, Trente ans de dynamiques fédérales et régionales.

Lien : https://popups.uliege.be/1374-3864/index.php?id=2031.

Abstract :

L’article s’intéresse à la place du régionalisme dans les relations internationales et plus particulièrement dans une économie politique internationale marquée par une diffusion croissante du pouvoir doublée d’une mondialisation qui exacerbe la compétition entre grandes puissances. Ainsi, la place et le rôle de l’Union européenne dans la mondialisation sont aujourd’hui bousculés par les actions des puissances internationales, telles que les États-Unis et la Chine, la compétition entre celles-ci et par une remise en question de l’ordre international libéral auquel elle s’identifie. L’article se penche dès lors sur une question majeure : le monde est-il en train de se construire ailleurs qu’en Europe ou l’Union européenne parvient-elle à s’affirmer comme un des pôles principaux de l’ordre international ? Pour tenter d’apporter quelques éléments de réponse à ces questions, l’article fait le choix de se focaliser essentiellement sur les actions entreprises par l’Union en matière de politique commerciale.

Liridon Lika, "Les Balkans occidentaux entre l’intégration européenne et la projection d’influence des puissances émergentes", BePolitix (ABSP), 16 décembre 2020

Liridon Lika, "Les Balkans occidentaux entre l’intégration européenne et la projection d’influence des puissances émergentes", BePolitix (ABSP), 16 décembre 2020.

Lien : https://absp.be/Blog/balkans-integration-europeenne/

Liridon Lika a récemment publié un court résumé de sa thèse de doctorat dans les billets BePolitix de l'ABSP (Association belge francophone de science politique).

The Journal of Cross-Regional Dialogues: publication of the first issue

ANNOUNCEMENT

The first issue of the Journal of Cross-Regional Dialogues has been published.

The issue's topic is Eurasian regionalism: global trends and local dynamics.

Here is the link to the website: https://popups.uliege.be/2593-9483/index.php?id=127

The issue is also being printed at the moment.