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China, the EU and Latin America : current issues and future cooperation
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Introduction:AssessingtheEmergingTrilateralRelationsbetweenChina theEUandLatinAmerica 99 process educationandinnovation andnontraditionalsecurityissues.Buckalso presentsacasestudyofAfricatoexplorethepossibilityoftrilateralcooperation thereinpositiveterms.Notingthenegativeaspectsoftrilateralcooperation suchas highertransaction costs hesuggeststhatthefocusshould be on structuralissuesand building peopletopeoplecontacts as wellascultural exchanges. FortunaBiatoarguesinthelastchapterofthisconferencevolume Chapter 15 thatthebest waytoachievetrilateralcooperationisto gothrough establishedbilateralrelationships.Theinstitutionalframeworkisstillnotready fortrilateralcooperation andtheregionalintegrationofLatin Americaasa wholehas not been accomplished butthereis already enough space for promotingjointprojects.OneapproachistopromotetheparticipationoftheEU andChinaindeveloping majorfinancialdevelopmenttoolsin Latin America suchastheAmericanDevelopmentBank.Theotherapproachistofindjoint projectsintheareasofastronavigation satellites andcleanenergy.Cooperation betweenemergingpowersisgraduallyinfluencingtheinternationalsystemand theglobalagenda which doesnot meantheycan undertake majorprojects withoutcooperation withdevelopedcountries.The Rio Groupis workingto promoteinstitutionaldialoguewithChinaandtheEU whichhasmadesome progress.Inthelongrun abroaderanddeeperglobalagendawillprovidemore andmoreinstancesforachievingtrilateralcooperationbetweenChina theEU andLatinAmerica. TheShanghaiInstitutesforInternationalStudies SIIS andtheFriedrich EbertStiftung FES wouldliketothankalltheauthorsfortheirwillingnessto cooperateinthispublication.AsallpaperswerewrittenforthejointSIISFES InternationalConference China theEUandLatinAmerica:CurrentIssuesand FutureCooperation thattookplacein April2009 theythereforereflectthe stateofknowledgeatthisdate.Onlysomeofthepaperswereupdatedduringthe editingprocess. Nobilingualvolumeispossiblewithoutknowledgeabletranslators.DrWu Xiaozhen DrZhou Baowei Zhao Ruoyuand Lu Yangtranslatedthe English contributionsintoChinese.JamesPattersonrevisedalltheEnglishpapersfor publication.Wemuchappreciatetheirprofessionalefforts.