China in EU’s Strategy for Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific

Astarita, Claudia

doi:10.1007/978-981-19-7521-9_6

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“…This, in part, has been due to the ascendance of a second narrative, revolving around the Japan‐promoted concept of FOIP, which has increasingly emerged as a key framing device for a shared EU‐Japanese vision of (their partnership's role in) international order. While the EU had long shied away from employing the term FOIP for its ‘anti‐China connotations’, its reluctance, around the turn of the decade, for a multitude of reasons, including a re‐assessment of its relationship with China (European Commission, 2019), visibly declined in recent years (Cunningham, 2022).…”

Section: Are the Eu And Japan Friends?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Does the EU have friends?

Klose

2022

J of Common Market Studies

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This article seeks to explore the relevance of the concept of international friendship for the study of EU foreign policy. Drawing on a nascent friendship literature developing in the field of IR, this article argues that the EU's friendshipsrelations with significant others based on shared narratives and projectsplay an important part in the EU's construction of its international identity. To illustrate this argument, the article provides an analysis of the EU's relations with Japan. The analysis suggests that EU-Japan relations can usefully be described as an emergent international friendship whichrevolving around the narrative of a Free and Open Indo-Pacific and shared projects such as the EU-Japan Partnership on Sustainable Connectivity and Quality Infrastructureshapes and solidifies the EU's self-image as an actor in international affairs.

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Section: Are the Eu And Japan Friends?mentioning

confidence: 99%