The EU's Human Rights Dialogue with China
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The EU's Human Rights Dialogue with China

Quiet Diplomacy and its Limits

  1. 226 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The EU's Human Rights Dialogue with China

Quiet Diplomacy and its Limits

About this book

The European Union uses a confidential, institutionalized Dialogue to raise human rights concerns with China, but little is publicly known about its set-up, its substance, its development over time and its impact.

This book provides the first detailed reconstruction and assessment of the EU's responses to human rights violations in China from 1995 to the present day. Using classified documents in the EU's historical archives and interviews with diplomats, officials and human rights experts in Europe, China and the United States, Kinzelbach lifts the veil of secrecy on the EU-China Human Rights Dialogue and provides a rare insight into how the European Union and China conduct quiet diplomacy on human rights. The book reconstructs the evolution of the Dialogue and the EU's internal debate on the merits of quiet diplomacy, and draws comparisons with the approach of other actors, notably that of the United States. In doing so, the EU's relative impact is concluded to be tenuous if not counter-productive. The book also chronicles and analyzes numerous human rights concerns that were raised in the period, ranging from structural issues to individual cases.

This ground-breaking, in-depth case study will be of interest to students and scholars of international politics, human rights, international law, EU politics, especially the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy, and Chinese politics.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Front-Other Page
  3. Half-title Page
  4. Series Page
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright Page
  7. Dedication Page
  8. Table Of Contents
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 Set-up and content of the EU–China Human Rights Dialogue
  12. 2 1995–1997: From public condemnation to quiet diplomacy
  13. 3 1998–1999: Tactical concessions abroad and repression at home
  14. 4 2000–2002: From litmus test to breach of trust
  15. 5 2003–2004: Human rights diplomacy in a honeymoon relationship
  16. 6 2005–2006: Dialogue fatigue meets growing confidence
  17. 7 2007–2008: Principles between stand-off and sweet-talk
  18. 8 2009–2010: Dialogue ritual and power shift
  19. Conclusion
  20. References
  21. Index