China–Europe relations: The limits of strategic partnership

Moral policy entrepreneurship: the role of NGOs in the EU’s external human rights policy towards China

“…207 TFEU to include human rights clauses in its bilateral and regional trade agreements, the 1985 cooperation agreement between China and the EU -which still constitutes the cornerstone of their trade relations -contains no such clause. During negotiations for an updated framework, China insists on keeping trade and human rights separate (Taneja 2010). The two have therefore been delinked and deprioritised, despite efforts by the European Parliament and Commission to include human rights in the new framework (Kaya 2014).…”

Strategic partnerships, international politics and IR theory

“…Blanco (2016) and Bang (2017) applied linguistic approaches to study the functions of the EU's and Chinese strategic partnerships, respectively. Taneja (2010), and Michalski and Pan (2017b) focus instead on the ideas and norms that partners share, as well as the levels of such normative congruence as manifestations of the SP development. The argument is being made that the competing worldviews influence actors' perceptions and pursuit of the organizational principles and governing norms that underwrite the contemporary international system.…”

Introduction: The European Union’s strategic partnerships: conceptual approaches, debates and experiences

“…Moreover, current scholarly works on the SPs are largely characterized by its scattered nature. Most of the existing contributions deal with the relations between the EU and individual partners, such as India (Bava 2010;Sachdeva 2009), Brazil (Ceia 2008; Whitman and Rodt 2012), Russia (Haukkaula 2010; De Wilde and Pellon 2006) and China (Holslag 2011;Taneja 2010). The majority of these studies highlight the institutional aspects that typify the partnership and its effects on both bilateral and regional dynamics, and show a concern about specific policy areas, notably environment, energy and security.…”