Suchergebnisse

EU enlargement and South East Asia, Vietnam's opportunities for cooperation, international political implications. Developments in new EU member states and their relations with Vietnam (Poland, Slovakia, Czech Rep., Hungary)

Unwillingness of seven members (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Maldives) to participate in the 19th SAARC Summit, scheduled for November in Pakistan, for unavailability of 'conducive atmosphere' in post-Uri terror attack gives the impression that the South Asian regional grouping has reached a huge cliff, hard to retrieve.

Aus amerikanischer Sicht

The European Union's partnership with China has received significant academic attention. Experts have focused on both parties' economic and political objectives and have made efforts to grasp the dynamics of the institutionalisation of EU-China cooperation. However, little has been said about how this collaboration affects the lives of citizens, especially in China. Adopting a Foucauldian epistemology, this article's key contention is that EU-China cooperation imposes a joint form of post-liberal governmental power on the Chinese population, which socially constructs empowered but not liberal political subjectivities for Chinese citizens. The article first reviews Foucault's approach to governmentality. It then explores Sino-EUropean collaboration after 2013, when the two partners established the 'EU-China 2020 Strategic Agenda for Cooperation'. We illustrate how the institutionalisation of the partnership has been consistent with a governmentalised political rationality, and how policy implementation has allowed a post-liberal form of governmental power to flow from both EU and Chinese policymakers towards the Chinese population, triggering processes of political subjectivisation.