A New and Complicated Threat to European Security: China

Authors : Abdul Rezak Bilgin

Pages : 53-69

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Publication Date : 2024-06-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :China has been pursuing a foreign policy aimed at becoming a global hegemonic power, and its rising penetration and sway are reshaping the globe. Beijing is a progressively active international actor with improving military, economic, and technological capabilities. Relations between Europe and China are more complex than ever before. China has increasingly been a threat to European security, and there has been a conflict between Beijing’s foreign policy purposes and European security. China’s ideals and priorities do not overlap with Europe’s own, and so Europe does not longer view China as a possible responsible stakeholder, but rather as the champion of a competing set of values and institutions. China and Europe have incompatible identities, and Beijing has been encouraging an alternative perspective on a liberal international order. China’s autocratic state-capitalism model presents inspiration to adversaries of a democratic, liberal, West-led international order. This study argues that China poses both a material and an ideational threat to European security. The main objective of the article is to demonstrate the material and ideational dimensions of China’s threat to European security through empirical evidence by utilizing the explanatory power of realism and constructivism theories. The article adopts the case-study method for understanding complex phenomena and providing detailed descriptions and analyses based on qualitative data and research.
Keywords : Avrupa, Çin, Güvenlik, Tehdit

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