China-US Competition

This open access edited book brings together a closer examination of European and Asian responses to the escalating rivalry between the US and China. As the new Cold War has surfaced as a perceivable reality in the post-COVID era, the topic itself is of great importance to policymakers, academic researchers, and the interested public. Furthermore, this manuscript makes a valuable contribution to an under-studied and increasingly important phenomenon in international relations: the impact of the growing strategic competition between the United States and China on third parties, such as small and middle powers in the two arguably most affected regions of the world: Europe and East Asia. The European side has been under-studied and explicitly comparative work on Europe and East Asia is extremely rare. Given that the manuscript focuses heavily on recent developments—and because many of these developments have been quite dramatic—there are very few publications that cover the same topics.

“This edited volume is a collection of chapters by noted scholars of US-China relations as well as regional experts on Europe and East Asia. It makes a major contribution to our understanding of the impacts of great power competition on the middle powers in the two most important and dynamic areas of the world.  All chapters are clearly written and original, providing fresh and unique insights into the complicated issues in the contemporary world. Strongly recommended for anyone who is interested in the great power relations and regional dynamics in Asia and Europe.”

--Suisheng Zhao, Professor, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, and Editor of Journal of Contemporary China.

“This book examines an increasingly crucial issue in international affairs: the impact of strategic competition between the United States and China on middle powers and smaller states in Europe and East Asia.  Focusing on thesetwo uniquely important and greatly affected regions, the contributors offer in-depth country-specific case studies, strongly informed by international relations theory.  Collectively, they have produced a volume that offers valuable comparative insights and fresh perspectives on the defining great power competition of our era.”

-- Jacques deLisle is Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science as well as Director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, USA.

Simona A. Grano is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Taiwan Studies Project at the University of Zurich. She completed her Ph.D. in Chinese Studies at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy, in 2008 and is the author of Environmental Governance in Taiwan: a new generation of activists and stakeholders, Routledge (2015).

David Wei-Feng Huang obtained his D.Phil. in Politics at the University of Oxford. He was Adjunct Associate Professor at National Taiwan University and is currently an Associate Research Fellow at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He is the editor of the monograph Asia Pacific Countries and the US Rebalancing Strategy. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.