Notes on Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures and Tables vii
4. Notes on Contributors ix
5. Preface xii
6. Introduction: Narrative and Europe–China Relations 1
7. The Return of Security: Shifting Perceptions of the State(craft) in UK–China Relations 17
8. Clashing Narratives over Italy’s Adhesion to the Belt and Road Initiative: A Critical Discourse Analysis Approach 36
9. The ‘Iron Friendship’ and the ‘Long and Winding Road’: Narrating Sino-Serbian Relations on the Borders of the EU 57
10. The Unicorn, the Dragon and the Storytellers: Comparing Praxes of Narrating China in EU Foreign Policy 75
11. China, Europe and Dual Circulation: Emerging Narratives of China’s New Economic Model 93
12. The Politics of Human Rights between China and the EU 113
13. The Narratives of Counterterrorism and the Prospects of EU–China Security Cooperation 132
14. The Role of Science and Technology in UK Narratives about China: The Case of Synthetic Biology 154
15. From Academic Partner to ‘Academic Threat’: German and UK Media Framing of European–Chinese Academic Cooperation since Xi Jinping Came to Power 173
16. Exploring the Limits of Soft Power: Sentiments and Narratives on China in Turkish Social Media and Political Speeches of Elites 199
17. Chosen Traumas: China’s Everlasting Century of Humiliation and Sino-European Relations 225
18. The Weight of History: Competing Narratives in the Context of a Rising China 244
19. Conclusion: Narratives and China–Europe Relations 264
20. Index 273