One belt, one road, one story?: towards an EU-China strategic narrative

Miskimmon, O'Loughlin and Zeng: Introduction -- Part I: Shaping Narratives: Contexts for Alignment -- Alister Miskimmon and Ben O'Loughlin (Queen's University Belfast and Royal Holloway, University of London): The EU's struggle for a strategic narrative on China -- Liu Chunrong, (Fudan University): Framing China-EU Sub-regional Cooperation: The Elusive Pursuit of Normative Resonance? -- Shi Zhiqin and Vasilis Trigkas (Tsinghua University), Reconstructing Geography, Power and Politics in the Belt & Road Initiative -- Zhenyan Xi (Sichuan University) – The Assessment of China's Economic Rise and Its Strategic Narrative in Europe -- Part II: Measuring Narratives: Analytical Tool of Perceptions -- Jinghan Zeng (Royal Holloway): The role of Europe in Chinese strategic narratives: "Belt and Road Initiative" and "New Type of Great Power relations" -- Junchi Ma (Institute for European Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences): The paradoxes between narrator and audience in the China's narrative of Belt and Road Initiative -- Li Zhang (Tsinghua University)- China's Belt and Road Initiative in the European Media: A Mixed Narrative? -- Feng Zhongping and Huang Jing (China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations), Chinese strategic narratives of Europe since the European debt crisis -- Floor Keuleers (Leuven): Choosing the Better Devil: Reception of EU and Chinese Narratives on Development by South African University Students -- Carolijn van Noort (Otago/UWE): Visual Analysis of the Belt and Road Initiative: The Securing of a Regional Geopolitical Order, China's Identity, and Infrastructure Development Narratives -- Miskimmon, O'Loughlin and Zeng: Conclusions.

Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- How Do We Analyse Strategic Narrative? -- Plan of the Chapters -- References -- Part I Shaping Narratives: Contexts for Alignment -- 2 The EU's Struggle for a Strategic Narrative on China -- Introduction -- Theoretical Framework: Strategic Narratives -- Can Relations with China Enable a New EU Narrative? Analysing Alignment Potential -- Analysis 1: Issue Narratives -- Analysis 2: Identity Narratives -- Analysis 3: System Narratives -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Framing China-EU Sub-regional Cooperation: The Elusive Pursuit of Normative Resonance? -- Introduction -- China Goes Sub-regional -- The EU's Normative Claims -- China's Pragmatic Framing -- Conclusions -- References -- 4 Reconstructing Geography, Power and Politics in the Belt and Road Initiative -- Introduction -- From Rings of Fire to Rings of Peace: Geographical Specificities in the BRI -- Balancing the Power Asymmetry: No Unipolar Moment for China -- Legitimizing the BRI: Performance, Principles and Procedures -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Evaluating Narratives: Analytical Tools -- 5 The Paradoxes Between Narrator and Audience in the China's Narrative of Belt and Road Initiative -- Part I: Views on the Narrator, the Narrative, and Its Aims -- Views on the Cooperation with China-The Narrative Itself -- Views on the Goals Behind This Initiative-The Aims of China's Narrative -- Views on the Chinese Government-The Narrator Itself -- Part II: The Conditions Under Which China as the Narrator and Europe as the Audience -- The Context for the Communication Between Narrator and Audience -- The Narrator's Methodology of Promotion -- Part III: Paradoxes Between China as the Narrator and Europe as the Audience -- Part IV: The Institutional Gap Behind the Paradoxes -- References.