From Partners to Rivals: Normative Power Europe Meets Normative Power China?

Year 2024, Online First, 1 - 16

Gözde Yılmaz

https://doi.org/10.33458/uidergisi.1601888

Abstract

The European Union (EU) has been promoting its norms, values, and rules for decades. However, in the current international environment, the EU’s normative power is not being received well outside the EU, particularly in reference to the growing power of illiberal states. Within that context, this study explores EU-China relations across time and unpacks the position of normative power Europe towards China and the Chinese response. The study foregrounds the fruitless attempts of the EU to project its transformative power onto China and the growing resistance by China against this, which it expresses by presenting itself to the West as an alternative power with an alternative understanding of international politics.

Keywords

China, European Union, Normative Power China, Normative Power Europe, Strategic Partner

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