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AbstractGiven the global changes created by China's expanding international influence, increasingly intense Sino–American competition and the growing multi‐polarisation of the international political economy, is there any specific place that the European Union can hope to occupy? For tentative answers to this question, this analysis of Chinese economic expansionism aims to highlight the rationale behind the EU's foreign policy action and to explore how this expansionism has impacted on the preservation of the European unity and whether Chinese economic power has undermined integration and triggered disunity within the EU. We look at the period starting in 2013, the year when China launched its 'New Silk Road' initiative, right up to the global lockdown due to the COVID‐19 pandemic.

The European Union (EU) has a number of different powers in its toolbox. One of these policies lies at the core of the EU's external competences – the common commercial policy (CCP) or common trade policy. This enables the EU to 'speak as one voice' in multilateral bodies and with third parties. The CCP, which has become stronger over the years, has developed into one of the bloc's key international projection levers. However, the EU's place and role in globalization are today being shaken chiefly by three major political factors: the rise of new powers, the United States (US)' neo-mercantilist policies, and political divisions within the EU. Together, these three external and internal factors may be hastening a crisis for the EU. This raises the question: to what extent can the bloc influence its own destiny during this stormy period?
European union, international actor, common commercial policy, global trade, internal divisions, neomercantilism, diffusion of power

Depuis les années 1990, l'UE déploie une stratégie de rapprochement avec l'Amérique latine qui donne la priorité aux relations avec des groupes régionaux. De son côté le Brésil développait des relations avec l'UE à partir, notamment, du Mercosur. Ceci étant, lors de ces dernières années, l'UE a cherché à intensifier ses relations individuelles avec des pays dits "émergents". Pour sa part, le Brésil a cherché à développer un canal de relations directes et régulières avec l'UE. Le présent article s'intéresse à comprendre ces différents changements stratégiques qui ont mené l'UE et le Brésil à développer leur "partenariat stratégique" ainsi qu'à faire une évaluation des résultats atteint par ce dernier.

Mundialização, regionalização e fronteiras---

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