The EU's Human Rights Dialogue with China: Quiet Diplomacy and Its Limits

ISBN-13: 9780415698467 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 226 str.

Katrin Kinzelbach

Opis

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."

Spis treści

Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Set-up and Content of the EU-China Human Rights Dialogue 2. 1995-1997: From Public Condemnation to Quiet Diplomacy 3. 1998-1999: Tactical Concessions Abroad and Repression at Home 4. 2000-2002: From Litmus Test to Breach of Trust 5. 2003-2004: Human Rights Diplomacy in a Honeymoon Relationship 6. 2005-2006: Dialogue Fatigue Meets Growing Confidence 7. 2007-2008: Principles Between Stand-off and Sweet-Talk 8. 2009-2010: Dialogue Ritual and Power Shift Conclusion References

O autorze

Katrin Kinzelbach is associate director of the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin and visiting professor at the School of Public Policy, Central European University in Budapest.