The Strategic Partnership between China and EU in the Era of Globalization: Perspective of Balance of Power

• Main Authors: Yu-Jen Lin, 林宥任
• Other Authors: Marion Chyun-Yang Wang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/74515160634082360958

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 政治學研究所 === 101 === The theory of Balance of Power effectively explained state’s behavior under anarchy during the Cold War. With the end of the Cold War the US became the most powerful state. According to theory of Balance of Power, secondary powerful states would cooperate with each other to work against USA, but in the reality it is not the case. International system has gone into “complex independence” according to Keohane and Nye. As the most powerful state, USA has every advantages, are they political, economical and military, to enforce their unilateralist foreign policy. After the “911” event, the target of US unilateralist foreign policy is counter-terrorism based on the ideas of “Preventive diplomacy” and “Preemptive Strike”. Meanwhile, with the development of globalization, no country is capable to address the challenges like financial crisis, climate change, energy shortage, terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) alone. With “EU-China Strategic Partnership” EU and China European countries and China work together not only for balancing the US unilateralism but also for build-up paradigm in term of regional cooperation which could be regarded as a new kind of soft power. In this context, the idea of balance of power is to be included by soft and hard power, which is discussing as smart power.