Taming the Tiger: The Normative Power of the EU towards China in Trade Policy
(2022) STVM23 20221Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- The EU’s normative power has been questioned vis-à-vis Grand Powers like China, India, and Russia. It has also been doubted in relation to trade policy, where the economic benefits challenge the incentive to act normatively.
In this thesis, qualitative content analysis is conducted to find out how normative is the EU towards China in trade policy, by focusing on a case study of the Comprehensive Investment Agreement. The materials used include EU strategies, EU documents, and secondary material such as academic articles, books, and news articles. A second part of the research focuses on the examination of the reasons explaining the analysis’ results.
The analysis finds that the EU normative intent to promote the norm of human rights is... (More) - The EU’s normative power has been questioned vis-à-vis Grand Powers like China, India, and Russia. It has also been doubted in relation to trade policy, where the economic benefits challenge the incentive to act normatively.
In this thesis, qualitative content analysis is conducted to find out how normative is the EU towards China in trade policy, by focusing on a case study of the Comprehensive Investment Agreement. The materials used include EU strategies, EU documents, and secondary material such as academic articles, books, and news articles. A second part of the research focuses on the examination of the reasons explaining the analysis’ results.
The analysis finds that the EU normative intent to promote the norm of human rights is lower than to promote the norm of sustainable development. The latter is at the heart of many EU strategies as well as the Comprehensive Investment Agreement. However, the normative impact of the EU normative power is low in both cases. The reasons for this are a lack of leverage towards China, conflicting positions of the EU institutions, the lack of understanding of China’s change, and the lack of recognition of the EU’s normative power by China. (Less)
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- author
- Jochecová, Ketrin LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- STVM23 20221
- year
- 2022
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- China, EU, trade, Comprehensive Investment Agreement, normative power
- language
- English
- id
- 9079551
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- 2022-07-04 09:18:05
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- 2022-07-04 09:18:05
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