Original title: Odpověď EU na čínskou iniciativu Nové hedvábné stezky: geopolitická analýza
Translated title: The EU's Response to China's Belt and Road Initiative: A Geopolitical Analysis
Authors: Nguyen, Dao ; Kissack, Robert (advisor) ; David, Maxine (referee)
Document type: Master’s theses
Year: 2021
Language: eng
Abstract: Research on geopolitics primarily focuses on nation-state actors and how geographical factors affect their policy towards other actors in international relations. The EU, as a non-state actor and a normative power, has been understudied through the lens of geopolitics as scholars believed that this Union was unlikely to apply geopolitical thinking in their foreign policy. This thesis aims to explore to what extent and under what circumstances an actor, notably a non- state actor, applies geopolitical theories in the foreign policy. The paper argues that geopolitics theories, both classical and critical ones, have been increasingly able to explain the external relations of the EU, particularly after 2013 when the Chinese government launched Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Furthermore, geopolitics theories also add more values to understand the complexity of the EU' foreign policy, given the fact that there is no single theory that can explain it comprehensively. As explanatory research, qualitative methods, including discourse analysis, content analysis, and process tracing, will be used to examine how the EU has responded to BRI. The thesis first reviews the scholarship on geopolitics and EU's foreign policy. Next, it investigates how China applies geoplitics in BRI. Last, it focuses on how the...
Keywords: Belt and Road Initiative; EU's foreign policy; EU-China relations; Geopolitics; Normative power

Institution: Charles University Faculties (theses) (web)
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Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/151307

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