A New and Complicated Threat to European Security: China

Year 2024, Volume: 8 Issue: 1, 53 - 69, 30.06.2024

Abdul Rezak Bilgin

Abstract

China has been pursuing a foreign policy aimed at becoming a global hegemonic power, and its rising penetration and sway are reshaping the globe. Beijing is a progressively active international actor with improving military, economic, and technological capabilities. Relations between Europe and China are more complex than ever before. China has increasingly been a threat to European security, and there has been a conflict between Beijing’s foreign policy purposes and European security. China’s ideals and priorities do not overlap with Europe’s own, and so Europe does not longer view China as a possible responsible stakeholder, but rather as the champion of a competing set of values and institutions. China and Europe have incompatible identities, and Beijing has been encouraging an alternative perspective on a liberal international order. China’s autocratic state-capitalism model presents inspiration to adversaries of a democratic, liberal, West-led international order. This study argues that China poses both a material and an ideational threat to European security. The main objective of the article is to demonstrate the material and ideational dimensions of China’s threat to European security through empirical evidence by utilizing the explanatory power of realism and constructivism theories. The article adopts the case-study method for understanding complex phenomena and providing detailed descriptions and analyses based on qualitative data and research.

Keywords

Europe, China, Security, Threat

Avrupa Güvenliğine Yönelik Yeni ve Karmaşık Bir Tehdit: Çin

Abstract

Çin, küresel hegemonik bir güç olmayı hedefleyen bir dış politika izliyor ve artan nüfuzu ve etkisi dünyayı yeniden şekillendiriyor. Pekin, gelişen askeri, ekonomik ve teknolojik kabiliyetleriyle giderek daha aktif bir uluslararası aktör haline gelmektedir. Avrupa ve Çin arasındaki ilişkiler her zamankinden daha karmaşıktır. Çin, Avrupa'nın güvenliği için giderek artan bir tehdit haline gelmiş ve Pekin'in dış politika amaçları ile Avrupa'nın güvenliği arasında bir çatışma yaşanmıştır. Çin'in idealleri ve öncelikleri Avrupa'nınkilerle örtüşmemektedir ve bu nedenle Avrupa artık Çin'i olası sorumlu bir paydaş olarak değil, rakip bir değerler ve kurumlar dizisinin savunucusu olarak görmektedir. Çin ve Avrupa uyumsuz kimliklere sahiptir ve Pekin liberal uluslararası düzene alternatif bir bakış açısını teşvik etmektedir. Çin'in otokratik devlet-kapitalizmi modeli, demokratik, liberal, Batı liderliğindeki uluslararası düzen karşıtlarına ilham kaynağı olmaktadır. Bu çalışma, Çin'in Avrupa güvenliği için hem maddi hem de düşünsel bir tehdit oluşturduğunu savunmaktadır. Makalenin temel amacı, realizm ve konstrüktivizm teorilerinin açıklayıcı gücünü kullanarak Çin'in Avrupa güvenliğine yönelik tehdidinin maddi ve düşünsel boyutlarını ampirik kanıtlarla ortaya koymaktır. Makale, karmaşık olguları anlamak ve nitel verilere ve araştırmalara dayalı ayrıntılı açıklamalar ve analizler sunmak için vaka çalışması yöntemini benimsemektedir.

Keywords

Avrupa, Çin, Güvenlik, Tehdit

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