EUROPA, CHINA ŞI GUVERNANŢA GLOBALĂ. MIRAJUL DRUMULUI MĂTĂSII
EUROPE, CHINA AND THE GLOBAL GOVERNANCE.

Summary/Abstract: The world today is a mess. There is no doubt about it. But probably this is also how the contemporaries of other historical times saw their present. We could rather say that the international order is difficult to predict at the beginning of a century which is already dominated by very confusing moves and combinations. Using the author’s own means of research and observation (field research, the perception of reality from the perspective of the study of history, and a compared dimension), this article wishes to shed some light on a part of the role played by the European Union in the international policy under the circumstances of the fast transformations suffered by the global economic and security environment. The strategic relation with China is worth discussing at several levels (depending on the various categories of interests); our considerations about the course of the strategic partnership between the two powers and about the current evolutions of the international scene try to provide only some necessary benchmarks for an overall understanding of this diplomatic closeness. The United States and Russia are global phenomena with complex, eventful trajectories and a direct impact on modern universal history. Having emerged on the international arena approximately at the same time, the evolution of the European Union and China (the name Zhōngguó means the Middle Kingdom) is not reflected in the adoption or appropriation of the features of the old dualist model generated by the two ideologically opposing groups, the West and the East. They both try specific governing and extension formulas: the first chooses the road of the European integration and thus stands out in the classical landscape of intergovernmental cooperation and transnational dialogue between the states and the second counts on the advantages of its physical architecture which generates prosperity, to make its presence felt on the global scene. Last but not least, the article wishes to bring forward, within a certain contextual framework, those essential elements of civilisation which provide an easier understanding of the surrounding political and economic realities, advancing new reflection leads.

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