ABSTRACT

This volume analyzes what China’s rise means for the transatlantic community in a new age of disruption—an age marked by great power rivalry, technological upheavals, and the diffusion of power.

The book explores how today’s conditions—including heightened Western concerns about Chinese influence operations, Chinese efforts to manipulate critical economic interconnections and dependencies, rapid technological advances, the Russia–China entente, and growing linkages between North Atlantic and Indo-Pacif ic security—have forced Western actors to adopt a more differentiated approach. In this great power competition, they must decide how and where to work with China as an important partner, how to address China’s competitive challenges, and how to address China’s efforts to forge a set of norms and institutions to challenge the open, rules-based international system.

The book will be of key interest to students and scholars of Transatlantic Relations, International Relations, Global Governance, European Politics, Asian Security, US and EU Foreign Policy, and Sino-Western relations. It will also be of interest to think-tank researchers and policy practitioners.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

part I|82 pages

The return of great power rivalry in an age of disruption

chapter 1|35 pages

Crossing the river by feeling the stones

The United States, Europe, and China in an age of rivalry and disruption

chapter 2|14 pages

Challenging China

The United States and the dilemmas of Western leadership

chapter 3|16 pages

The view from China

Perspectives on the West in the Xi Jinping era

chapter 4|15 pages

“Partners, competitors, rivals”

Europe between America and China

part II|48 pages

Dilemmas of security and order

chapter 5|14 pages

NATO and China

chapter 6|15 pages

The Russia–China entente

Implications for the transatlantic community

chapter 7|17 pages

Governance and norms in a new world order

The contest for global leadership

part III|58 pages

Economic power, the climate challenge, and the search for meaningful cooperation

chapter 8|24 pages

The Dollar, the Euro, and the RMB

Power relations in monetary affairs

chapter 9|15 pages

The geoeconomics of the US and China

From co-dependence to increasing bifurcation