China and the EU in the Era of Regional and Interregional Cooperation

Mario Telò / Yuan Feng (eds.)

China and the EU in the Era
of Regional and Interregional
Cooperation

International Issues
Vol. 49

This publication is funded by EU-CHINA People to People Association and the
“GEM-STONES research and doctoral project”, funded by the EU Commission,
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Table of Contents

Yuan Feng

Min Zhang

Geoffrey Harris is a former official of the European Parliament (1976–2016). He is also a former visiting scholar at Fudan Development Institute, Shanghai, 2017, and a visiting professor at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou. He is the author of numerous essays and articles on EU-China relations and global order and takes part on a regular basis in EU-China strategic debate.

Hongyu Lin is the dean of the College of International Relations at Huaqiao University. He is also a standing councillor of China Association of International Studies (CAIS), senior fellow of China Pacific Studies Academy and one of the distinguished scholars of Peking social science theory studies. Prof. Lin earned his PhD from Peking University and once was a visiting scholar at Hoover Institution at Stanford University and director of the Department of International Politics at the China University of International Relations. He specialized in the studies of Sino-US relations, IPE, big powers’ gaming and international security and has published several books including Political Analysis of American Presidential Elections (2017), General Studies of BRICS (2016), Rise of China and World Governance (2014), Rise of China and International System (2013), Review of China National Security in 2012 and Methodology of International Studies (2006).

P. Rodrigues, Assistant Professor, has a PhD in international politics from the University of Freiburg, Germany. His scientific interests focus on south-south and China-Brazil interregional relations, notably in the fields of environment and energy policies. After a bachelors in Pearson College, UWC and Trent University, Canada, he studied at the Freiburg University (Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute). His publications deal with development policy in Guatemala and China’s relations with South America.

Jürgen Rüland (1953) studied political science, history and German literature at the University of Freiburg, Germany. He earned a PhD in political science from the University of Freiburg in 1981 and his habilitation degree at the same university in 1989. From 1978 to 1991 he worked as a research fellow at the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute, Freiburg. He was a professor pro tempore of political science at the University Passau (1991–1993) and professor of political science at the University of Rostock (1993–1998). From 1998 to 2019 Rüland was full time professor of international relations at the University of Freiburg. From 2000 to 2002 he served as a dean of the Faculty of Humanities IV. Since November 2009 Prof. Rüland has been the chairperson of the Freiburg University’s Southeast Asia Program, which is sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). His numerous books on regional cooperation and interregional relations are considered as reference by the international epistemic community.

Ruixia Jia (1971) holds a PhD in law from Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She has been a researcher of Institute of European Studies of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences since 1999. Her researches mainly focus on central and eastern European countries. Jia Ruixia is an associate research fellow, EU Science and Technology Policy Division Institute of European Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She is currently a researcher at the Institute of European Studies,

Sebastian Santander is a full time professor, head of the Political Science Department and in-charge of the Center for International Relations Studies (CEFIR) of the Faculty of Law, Political Science and Criminology at the University of Liège (ULg). He is also an associate member of the Centre d’études sur l’intégration et la mondialisation from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and of the Institute of European Studies of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He received a PhD from the ULB where he worked nine years as a lecturer and did a one-year post-doc at the Faculty of Art and Social Science of the University of Maastricht. He has been a visiting scholar at the College of Europe (European Interdisciplinary Studies Department, Natolin Campus) and in many other universities (Brasilia, Brussels, Hangzhou, Le Havre, Leuven, Lubumbashi, Lima, Maastricht, Rouen, etc.). He publishes on the topics of regionalism, interregionalism, emerging and established powers, and about the external relations of the European Union and Latin America. His articles have appeared in: European Foreign Affairs Review, Foreign Affairs Latinoamerica, Journal of European Integration, Relations internationals, Études internationales, Politique européenne, Relazioni Internazionali, and Cuadernos sobre relaciones internacionales, regionalismo y desarrollo (Venezuela). Recent books include: (ed.) Concurrences régionales dans un monde multipolaire émergent, (Brussels, Peter Lang, 2016, 358 p.); (ed.) L’Afrique, terrain de jeu des émergents (Paris, Karthala, 2014, 319 p.); (ed.) Puissances émergentes: un défi pour l’Europe? (Paris, Ellipses, 2012, 384 p.) and (ed.) Relations internationales et régionalisme. Entre dynamiques internes et projections mondiales (Liège, Presses universitaires de Liège, 2012, 381 p.).