Cadmus - EUI Research Repository (European University Institute) · 2007 · 23 citations · 10 references
Social SciencesInternational LawInternational RelationsInternational OrganizationsInternational Political EconomyInternational SecurityArms EmbargoesEuropean Foreign PolicyEuropean IntegrationEuropean LawEuropean PoliticsInternational CooperationArms Export PolicyDiplomatic Coercion Through Arms EmbargoesEuropean Union PoliticsEuropean Union TreatiesInternational Arms EmbargoesLegitimacy Of Arms EmbargoesProcurement Of Military EquipmentWeapons Embargoes
From October 2003 to March 2005, the prospect of lifting the European Union’s (EU) arms embargo on China grew into a diplomatic crisis, and the focus of an intense bargaining between China, the EU, the EU member states, the U.S., Taiwan and Japan. However, the 1989 arms embargo is a non-legally binding political declaration that never fully prevented the selling of European military equipment to China. Furthermore, it is neither the only, nor the principal, mechanism governing EU member states’ technological and military related exports to China. Why do some actors so badly want to have it lifted, while others insist that the EU should maintain it at all costs? The paper argues that the international crisis triggered by lifting the arms embargo was the product of a combination of symbolic
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