China's impact on the European Union's Arctic policy: critical junctures, crossovers, and geographic shifts
In 2008, the European Commission perceived the European Union (EU) in an excellent position to collaborate with the five Euro-Arctic states and its strategic partners Canada, Russia, and the USA to shape Arctic governance in the fast-changing environment. However, the Arctic coastal states rejected...
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fttamkanguniv:oai:tkuir.lib.tku.edu.tw:987654321/123420 2023-06-11T04:08:01+02:00 China's impact on the European Union's Arctic policy: critical junctures, crossovers, and geographic shifts Biedermann, Reinhard 2021-05-29 108 bytes text/html https://tkuir.lib.tku.edu.tw/dspace/handle/987654321/123420 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10308-021-00605-7 https://tkuir.lib.tku.edu.tw/dspace/bitstream/987654321/123420/1/index.html en eng Springer Asia Europe Journal 19, p.467–487 全文連結 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10308-021-00605-7 1612-1031; 1610-2932 doi:10.1007/s10308-021-00605-7 https://tkuir.lib.tku.edu.tw/dspace/handle/987654321/123420 https://tkuir.lib.tku.edu.tw/dspace/bitstream/987654321/123420/1/index.html 2021 fttamkanguniv https://doi.org/10.1007/s10308-021-00605-7 2023-05-05T00:33:07Z In 2008, the European Commission perceived the European Union (EU) in an excellent position to collaborate with the five Euro-Arctic states and its strategic partners Canada, Russia, and the USA to shape Arctic governance in the fast-changing environment. However, the Arctic coastal states rejected the EU’s multilateral governance approach, while China has emerged as a significant factor in the Arctic. In 2018, China announced the Polar Silk Road to connect East Asia with Europe via Arctic shipping and other connectivity projects. In 2019, the EU started to perceive China as a systemic rival concerning the Belt and Road Initiative. What is the impact of China on the EU’s Arctic policies in the Euro-Arctic environment? What are the prospects for collaboration between the EU and China on joint issues? This paper applies process tracing to analyse China’s and the EU’s Arctic socialization in the early twenty-first century at three critical junctures of Arctic politics. At these junctures, the paper introduces the Arctic situation and the emerging problems, development in agenda setting, the policy processes, and the outcomes of the EU’s and China’s Arctic approaches. It argues that China’s rise as a maritime and Arctic power and its close relations with Russia along the Northern Sea Route shaped the EU’s Arctic policies and their shift towards the Barents sub-Arctic region. Implications are more interaction among both there, as China’s Polar Silk Road might also challenge the EU’s regulatory approach in the Euro-Arctic. 補正完畢 DEU Other/Unknown Material Arctic Northern Sea Route Tamkang University Institutional Repository (TKUIR) / 淡江大學機構典藏 Arctic Canada Asia Europe Journal 19 4 467 487 |
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In 2008, the European Commission perceived the European Union (EU) in an excellent position to collaborate with the five Euro-Arctic states and its strategic partners Canada, Russia, and the USA to shape Arctic governance in the fast-changing environment. However, the Arctic coastal states rejected the EU’s multilateral governance approach, while China has emerged as a significant factor in the Arctic. In 2018, China announced the Polar Silk Road to connect East Asia with Europe via Arctic shipping and other connectivity projects. In 2019, the EU started to perceive China as a systemic rival concerning the Belt and Road Initiative. What is the impact of China on the EU’s Arctic policies in the Euro-Arctic environment? What are the prospects for collaboration between the EU and China on joint issues? This paper applies process tracing to analyse China’s and the EU’s Arctic socialization in the early twenty-first century at three critical junctures of Arctic politics. At these junctures, the paper introduces the Arctic situation and the emerging problems, development in agenda setting, the policy processes, and the outcomes of the EU’s and China’s Arctic approaches. It argues that China’s rise as a maritime and Arctic power and its close relations with Russia along the Northern Sea Route shaped the EU’s Arctic policies and their shift towards the Barents sub-Arctic region. Implications are more interaction among both there, as China’s Polar Silk Road might also challenge the EU’s regulatory approach in the Euro-Arctic. 補正完畢 DEU |
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Biedermann, Reinhard China's impact on the European Union's Arctic policy: critical junctures, crossovers, and geographic shifts |
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China's impact on the European Union's Arctic policy: critical junctures, crossovers, and geographic shifts |
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China's impact on the European Union's Arctic policy: critical junctures, crossovers, and geographic shifts |
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China's impact on the European Union's Arctic policy: critical junctures, crossovers, and geographic shifts |
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China's impact on the European Union's Arctic policy: critical junctures, crossovers, and geographic shifts |
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China's impact on the European Union's Arctic policy: critical junctures, crossovers, and geographic shifts |
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china's impact on the european union's arctic policy: critical junctures, crossovers, and geographic shifts |
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