MACMILLAN Europe, China and the Two SARs: Towards a New Era

This book is a detailed study of contemporary economic, political and security relations between Western Europe (now represented by the European Union) and China and the two emerging special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau. In a comparative manner, the contributors analyse the policies of seven major European states and the European Commission, counter-balanced with the view from China, Hong Kong and Macau. This uniquely wide-ranging survey discusses the past record, the present performance and the future prospects of the Sino-European relationship. Review ...an extremely valuable source for academics, economists, government officials, professionals, business people, and students. Asian Affairs About the Author MONTSERRAT CANTO PEREZ Lecturer in Economics, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid MARTA DASSU Director of the Centre for Political and International Studies, Rome PETER FERDINAND Director of the Centre for Studies in Democratisation, University of Warwick, UK FRANÇOIS GODEMENT Senior Fellow for Asian Affairs, Institut Français de Relations Internationales, Paris HENK HOUWELING Associate Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam ALEXANDRO LORCO CORRONS Jean Monnet Chair Professor, Faculdad de Ciencias Economicas y Empresariales, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid BRIAN McDONALD European Commission, Brussels GARY M.C. NGAI Executive Director, Sino-Latin Foundation, Macau KLAUS RUPPRECHT Director of the East Asia Division of the German Federal Foreign Ministry, Bonn REGINE SERRA Research Assistant for Asian Affairs, Institut Français de Relations Internationales, Paris TING WAI Associate Professor, Department of Government and International Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong ZHOU HONG Deputy Director, Institute of European Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China.