Uncovering the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership: A Critical Discourse Analysis of EU-China Joint Press Statements
(2013)Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University
- Abstract
- This thesis analyses the social construction and discursive development of the EU-China Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (CSP) and aims at an improved understanding of the interaction between political language use and social change in EU-China relations. To this end, the thesis undertook a critical discourse analysis, based on Fairclough’s dialectical-relational approach, and analysed how EU-China joint press statements, as a particular order of discourse, constitute and reflect the discursive development of the EU-China CSP.
The analysis suggests that classical peace & security topics of the CSP, once dominant themes in EU-China joint press statements, play a decreasing role on the CSP agenda. At the same time, a framework of... (More) - This thesis analyses the social construction and discursive development of the EU-China Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (CSP) and aims at an improved understanding of the interaction between political language use and social change in EU-China relations. To this end, the thesis undertook a critical discourse analysis, based on Fairclough’s dialectical-relational approach, and analysed how EU-China joint press statements, as a particular order of discourse, constitute and reflect the discursive development of the EU-China CSP.
The analysis suggests that classical peace & security topics of the CSP, once dominant themes in EU-China joint press statements, play a decreasing role on the CSP agenda. At the same time, a framework of ‘global challenges’ (including climate change and global economic governance) is discursively constructed in joint press statements as a rising challenge to peace, stability and prosperity. The thesis argues that, through this strategic construction of ‘global challenges’, the representation of the CSP as a peace & security partnership, and thus the foreign policy identity of the EU and China as peace & security actors, is sustained. (Less)
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- author
- Klose, Stephan
- supervisor
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- Stefan Brehm LU
- organization
- year
- 2013
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- EU-China relations, comprehensive strategic partnership, critical discourse analysis
- language
- English
- id
- 3911964
- date added to LUP
- 2013-06-28 14:02:47
- date last changed
- 2013-06-28 14:02:47
@misc{3911964, abstract = {{This thesis analyses the social construction and discursive development of the EU-China Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (CSP) and aims at an improved understanding of the interaction between political language use and social change in EU-China relations. To this end, the thesis undertook a critical discourse analysis, based on Fairclough’s dialectical-relational approach, and analysed how EU-China joint press statements, as a particular order of discourse, constitute and reflect the discursive development of the EU-China CSP. The analysis suggests that classical peace & security topics of the CSP, once dominant themes in EU-China joint press statements, play a decreasing role on the CSP agenda. At the same time, a framework of ‘global challenges’ (including climate change and global economic governance) is discursively constructed in joint press statements as a rising challenge to peace, stability and prosperity. The thesis argues that, through this strategic construction of ‘global challenges’, the representation of the CSP as a peace & security partnership, and thus the foreign policy identity of the EU and China as peace & security actors, is sustained.}}, author = {{Klose, Stephan}}, language = {{eng}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{Uncovering the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership: A Critical Discourse Analysis of EU-China Joint Press Statements}}, year = {{2013}}, }