Publications

Books

Monograph

2009. Remaking Global Order: The Evolution of Europe-China Relations and its Implications for East Asia and the United States, Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://academic.oup.com/book/4463

Edited volumes (books)

2023. 60 Years of EU-Korea Relations, 1963-2023: Looking Back, Looking Forward, Seoul and Brussels: Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Press and European Union (with Sihong Kim, Moosung Lee, Eric Ballbach).
2022. Routledge Handbook of Europe-Korea Relations, London: Routledge (with Antonio Fiori, Nam-Kook Kim, Jae-Seung Lee, Ramon Pacheco Pardo). https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Europe-Korea-Relations/Casarini-Fiori-Kim-Lee-PachecoPardo/p/book/9781032118109?srsltid=AfmBOooastWfpPy5DcZQD2_EAdYKPDw2XIMLYG4LjZERRK-b8CJ3HSFc
2021. EU-Korea Security Relations, London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/EU-Korea-Security-Relations/Casarini/p/book/9780367710583?srsltid=AfmBOop6lb0wb4CyUecY2dWPQbHdDzeJ3vr7Mp2RpplbE7PDA4-4yKnm
2017. Moving Forward EU-India Relations, Rome: Nuova Cultura (with Stefania Benaglia and Sameer Patil).
https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/c08/moving-forward-eu-india-security-dialogue
2017. Promoting Security Cooperation and Trust Building in Northeast Asia: The Role of the EU, Rome: Nuova Cultura. https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/c08/promoting-security-cooperation-and-trust-building-northeast-asia-role-european
2013. Brussels-Beijing: changing the game?, Paris: European Union Institute for Security Studies. https://www.iss.europa.eu/publications/reports/brussels-beijing-changing-game
Foreign Policy in an Evolving International System: The Road Towards Convergence, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave-Macmillan (with Costanza Musu). https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9780230593145

Policy Papers (booklet length)

2019. Defend, Engage, Maximise: A progressive agenda for EU-China relations, Brussels: Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS). https://feps-europe.eu/publication/696-defend-engage-maximise-a-progressive-agenda-for-eu-china-relations/
2006. The evolution of the EU-China relationship: from constructive engagement to strategic partnership, Paris: European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS). https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/a1b1433e-84a6-43f2-8590-555709254a17/language-en

Remaking Global Order: The Evolution of Europe-China Relations and its Implications for East Asia and the United States

60 Years of EU-Korea Relations, 1963-2023: Looking Back, Looking Forward

The Routledge Handbook of Europe–Korea Relations

EU–Korea Security Relations

Promoting Security Cooperation and Trust Building in Northeast Asia

Moving Forward EU-India Relations

Brussels -Beijing: changing the game?

European Foreign Policy in an Evolving International System

Defend, Engage, Maximise: A progressive agenda for EU-China relations

The evolution of the EU-China relationship: from constructive engagement to strategic partnership.

Articles

Articles in peer reviewed journals:

2024. 'Review Article of Compound Containment: A Reigning Power’s Military-Economic Countermeasures against a Challenging Power'. By Dong Jung Kim, Perspectives on Politics, 22(3):943-945 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592724000355
2022. ‘A European strategic “third way?” The European Union between the traditional transatlantic alliance and the pull of the Chinese market’, China International Strategy Review 4(1): 1-17 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42533-022-00095-1
2022. ‘Assessing the pros and cons of the EU-China comprehensive agreement on investment’, Asia Europe Journal 20(1): 1-7 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10308-021-00641-3
2020. ‘Rising to the Challenge: Europe’s Security Policy in East Asia amid US-China Rivalry’, The International Spectator 55(4): 1-15 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03932729.2020.1712133?journalCode=rspe20

2018. ‘Tales from a Post-Dollar World. How America’s Growing Deficit and a Euro-Renminbi Axis Could Accelerate the Demise of the Greenback’, The International Spectator 53(1): 172-176 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03932729.2018.1419119?journalCode=rspe20
2018. ‘Europe’s comprehensive approach to Northeast Asia’s security’, Monde Chinois 53(1): 94-102 https://www.cairn.info/revue-monde-chinois-2018-1-page-94.htm
2016. ‘When All Roads Lead to Beijing. Assessing China’s New Silk Road and its Implications for Europe’, The International Spectator 51(4): 1-14 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03932729.2016.1224491?journalCode=rspe20
2015. ‘China’s Rebalancing towards Europe’, The International Spectator 50(3): 122-129 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03932729.2015.1061781?journalCode=rspe20
2013. 'European Fears – and Hopes – for a Risen China', The International Spectator 48(3): 130-135 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03932729.2013.819717
2010. ‘China and Europe: entente perdue’, Aspenia 49(1): 105-112
2008. ‘What Role for the European Union in Asia? An Analysis of the EU’s Asia Strategy and the Growing Significance of EU-China Relations’, Current Politics and Economics of Asia, 17(1): 59-82 https://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/9628
2007. ‘Europe-China Relations and the New Significance of Central and Eastern European Countries’, International Issues & Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs 16(3): 3-17 https://www.jstor.org/stable/26591060
2007. ‘The International Politics of the Chinese Arms Embargo Issue’, The International Spectator, 42(3): 371-389 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03932720701567588?journalCode=rspe20

Guest edited journal special issues

2022. ‘The EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: Perspectives from the European Union, China, and the United States’, Special Issue of Asia-Europe Journal 20(1) (co-edited with Miguel Otero-Iglesias) - https://link.springer.com/journal/10308/volumes-and-issues/20-1

2012. ‘A Rising China and its Strategic Impact’, Special Issue of The International Spectator 47(2) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03932729.2012.683271?journalCode=rspe20
2009. ‘Evolving Dynamics in the Asia-Pacific’, Special Issue of The International Spectator 44(2) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03932720903021111

A European strategic “third way?” The European Union between the traditional transatlantic alliance and the pull of the Chinese market

Assessing the pros and cons of the EU-China comprehensive agreement on investment

Rising to the Challenge: Europe’s Security Policy in East Asia amid US-China Rivalry

Tales from a Post-Dollar World. How America’s Growing Deficit and a Euro-Renminbi Axis Could Accelerate the Demise of the Greenback

Europe’s comprehensive approach to Northeast Asia’s security

When All Roads Lead to Beijing. Assessing China’s New Silk Road and its Implications for Europe

China’s Rebalancing towards Europe

European Fears – and Hopes – for a Risen China

What role for the European Union in Asia? An analysis of the EU's Asia strategy and the growing significance of EU-China relations

Europe-China Relations and the New Significance of Central and Eastern European Countries

The International Politics of the Chinese Arms Embargo Issue

Introduction: A Rising China and its Strategic Impact

Chapters

2024. 'Korea-Italy Relations in Security and Defense', in Kim Sihong and Raffaele Marchetti (eds.), 140 Years of Korea-Italy Relations, 1884-2024, Rome: LUISS University Press, pp. 58-73.
2024. 'Italy's de-risking from China: Top-down de-risking VS bottom-up deepening of ties', in Patrik Andersson and Frida Lindberg (eds.), National Perspectives on Europe’s De-risking from China, Stockholm-Brussels: European Think-tank Network on China (ETNC), pp. 81-84.
2023. 'EU and the Korean Peninsula' in Sihong Kim, Moosung Lee, Nicola Casarini and Eric Ballbach (eds.), 60 Years of EU-Korea Relations, 1963-2023: Looking Back, Looking Forward, Seoul-Brussels: Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Press and European Union, pp. 72-86.
2023. 'China's trend towards de-dollarisation and the role of the EU' (with Miguel Otero-Iglesias), in Sylvie Bermann and Elvire Fabry (eds.), EU and China between De-Risking and Cooperation: Scenarios by 2035, Paris: Jacques Delors Institute, pp. 76-84.
2023. 'Examining Europe-China connectivity on trade and investment: The case of the Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI)', in Sihong Kim and Michael Reiterer (eds.), Connecting Europe and Asia - Security, Economy and Mobility, Seoul: Hankuk University Press, pp. 140-151.
2022. ‘Italy’, in Coercion, Capture, and Censorship: Case Studies on the CCP’s Quest for Global Influence, Washington D.C.: International Republican Institute, pp. 28-48.
2021. ‘Assessing Europe’s Perspectives on the South China Sea’, in Leszek Buszynski and Do Thanh Hai (eds.), Maritime Issues and Regional Order in the Indo-Pacific, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 103-117.
2021. 'EU-Korea Relations in the age of COVID and Mounting US-China Tensions', in Nicola Casarini, Antonio Fiori, Nam-Kook Kim, Jae-Seung Lee, Ramon Pacheco Pardo (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Europe-Korea Relations, London: Routledge, pp. 281-289.
2021. ‘Non-proliferation in EU-Asia security relations’ (with Michito Tsuruoka), in Thomas Christiansen, Emil Kirchner, See Seng Tan (eds), The European Union’s Security Relations with Asian Partners, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 95-113.
2021. ‘Rising to the challenge: Promoting Brussels-Beijing economic relations while fostering a transatlantic dialogue on China’, in Elvire Fabry and Sylvie Bermann (eds.), Building Europe’s strategic autonomy vis-à-vis China, Paris: Jacques Delors Institute, pp. 39-48.
2021. ‘EU–Korea security relations in the context of EU security policy in East Asia’, in Nicola Casarini (ed.), EU-Korea Security Relations, London: Routledge, pp. 14-32.
2018. ‘Southeast Asia’s Security Dilemma–How the West is Responding’, in China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Southeast Asia, London: LSE IDEAS, October, pp. 26-30 - https://cariasean.org/publications/chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-bri-and-southeast-asia-publication/southeast-asias-security-dilemma-how-the-west-is-responding/
2018. ‘Non-proliferation in EU–Japan security relations’ (with Michito Tsuruoka), in Emil J. Kirchner and Han Dorussen (eds.), EU-Japan Security Cooperation, London: Routledge, pp. 56-73.
‘Maritime Security and Freedom of Navigation from the South China Sea and Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: Potential and Limits of EU-India Cooperation’, in Nicola Casarini, Stefania Benaglia and Sameer Patil (eds.), Moving Forward EU-India Relations, Roma: Nuova Cultura, pp. 21-38.
OBOR and Italy’. In: Frans-Paul van der Putten et al. (eds.), Europe and China’s New Silk Roads, The Hague: European Think-tank Network on China (ETNC) and Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’, December, pp. 38-40.

2016. ‘Aims versus deeds: EU-China Cooperation in nuclear non-proliferation’ (with Xinning Song), in Emil Kirchner, Thomas Christiansen and Han Dorussen (eds.), EU-China Security Cooperation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 63-80.
2015. ‘The role of think tanks in China’, in Kerry Brown (ed.), The EU-China Relationship: European Perspectives, London: World Scientific, pp. 88-97.
2015. ‘Italy and China: Investing in each other’, in: Mikko Huotari et al. (eds.), Mapping Europe-China Relations. A Bottom-Up Approach, Berlin: European Think-tank Network on China (ETNC) and Mercator Institute for China Studies, October, pp. 46-50.
2014. ‘Il pivot asiatico di Pechino’, in Aspenia, n. 63, pp. 74-81.
2013. ‘The securitization of EU-Asia relations in the post-Cold War era’, in Thomas Christiansen, Emil Kirchner, Philomena Murray (eds.), Handbook of EU-Asia Relations, Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 181-197.
2012. ‘EU-Asia interdependence at a time of crisis’, in: Justyna Szczudlik and Artur Gradziuk (eds.), Japan and the European Union: Challenges and Cooperation in Times of Crisis, Warsaw: Polish Institute of International Affairs, pp. 83-94.
2012. ‘The EU and China: Investing in a troubled partnership’. In: Giovanni Grevi and Thomas Renard (eds.), Partners in Crisis: EU Strategic Partnerships and the Global Economic Downturn, Madrid: FRIDE-Academia Press, pp. 23-32.
2012. The EU’s approach to China: Implications for transatlantic relations’. In: Patrik Pawlak (ed.), Look East, Act East: Transatlantic Agendas in the Asia Pacific, Paris: EUISS, Report No. 13, December, pp. 59-65.
2010. ‘The Rise and Fall of EU-China Relations in Space and Defence Technology’, in: Frans-Paul van der Putten and Chu Shulong (eds.), China, Europe and International Security, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 63-80.
2010. ‘EU-China relations in science and technology’. In: Stars and Dragons: The EU and China, House of Lords European Union Committee 7th Report of Session 2009–10. Vol. II: Written Evidence, London: The Stationery Office, March, pp. 241-245.
2008. ‘Europa e Cina nello spazio’, in Aspenia, n. 41, pp. 207-212.
2007. ‘EU-China Cooperation in Science and Technology’. In: Peter Ludlow (ed.), The EU and China, Ponte de Lima: European Strategy Forum, 2007, pp. 50-71.
2007. ‘The Making of the European Union’s Strategy towards Asia’, in: Nicola Casarini and Costanza Musu (eds.), European Foreign Policy in an Evolving International System: The Road towards Convergence, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 346-361.

Korea-Italy Relations in Security and Defense

EU and the Korean Peninsula

China's trend towards de-dollarisation and the role of the EU

Examining Europe-China connectivity on trade and investment: The case of the Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI)

An examination of China's influence tactics in Italy

Assessing Europe’s Perspectives on the South China Sea

Non-proliferation in EU-Asia security relations

Aims versus Deeds: EU–China Cooperation in Nuclear Nonproliferation

The role of think tanks in China

The Securitisation of EU-Asia Relations in the Post-Cold War Era

The EU’s approach to China: Implications for transatlantic relations

The Rise and Fall of EU–China Relations in Space and Defence Technology

The Making of the EU’s Strategy Towards Asia

Policy Papers

2024. Europe's De-risking from China: Dead on Arrival?, IAI Commentaries 24/47 - https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/c05/europes-de-risking-china-dead-arrival
2024. China-Taiwan Relations and the EU - How European Soft Power Could Help Reduce Cross-Strait Tensions, IAI Commentaries 24/21 - https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/c05/china-taiwan-relations-and-eu-how-european-soft-power-could-help-reduce-cross https://www.iai.it/sites/default/files/iaicom2243.pdf
2024. The Future of the Belt and Road in Europe: How China’s Connectivity Project is Being Reconfigured across the Old Continent – and What It Means for the Euro-Atlantic Alliance, IAI Working Papers 24/02 - https://www.iai.it/sites/default/files/iaip2402.pdf
2023. Italy’s Pivot to the Indo-Pacific – Towards a Value-driven Foreign Policy?, IAI Commentaries 23/24 - https://www.iai.it/sites/default/files/iaicom2324.pdf
2022. Brussels–Taipei: Changing the Game?, IAI Commentaries 22/43 - https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/c05/brussels-taipei-changing-game
2021. Silk Road Academic Connections: China-Italy Cooperation in Higher Education and Its Implications for the West, IAI Working Papers 21/44 - https://www.iai.it/sites/default/files/iaip2144.pdf
2019. Rome-Beijing: Changing the Game. Italy's Embrace of China's Connectivity Project, Implications for the EU and the US, IAI Working Papers 19/05 - https://www.iai.it/sites/default/files/iaip1905.pdf
2019. US-China Trade War: Why the EU Should Take Sides and Favour the Rules-based Order, IAI Commentaries 19/47 - https://www.iai.it/sites/default/files/iaicom1947.pdf
2019. Defend, Engage, Maximise: A progressive agenda for EU-China relations, FEPS Policy Paper - https://feps-europe.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Defend-Engage-Maximise-A-progressive-agenda-for-EU%E2%80%93China-relations.pdf

2019. How Europe Should Approach China, IAI Commentaries 19/68 - https://www.iai.it/sites/default/files/iaicom1968.pdf

2018. Australia and the EU in the Indo-Pacific: Is Cooperation towards a Rules-Based Order Possible?, IAI Commentaries 18/19 - https://www.iai.it/sites/default/files/iaicom1819.pdf
2018. Beijing's Ambitions in the South China Sea: How Should Europe Respond?, IAI Commentaries 18/23 - https://www.iai.it/sites/default/files/iaicom1823.pdf
2017. More Than a Trading Power. Europe’s Political Added Value for Security and Trust Building in Northeast Asia, IAI Working Papers 17/12 - https://www.iai.it/sites/default/files/iaiwp1712.pdf
2016. Maritime Security and Freedom of Navigation from the South China Sea and Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean, IAI Working Papers 16/37 - https://www.iai.it/sites/default/files/iaiwp1637.pdf
2015. Is Europe to Benefit from China’s Belt and Road Initiative?, IAI Working Papers 15/40 - https://www.iai.it/sites/default/files/iaiwp1540.pdf
2014. Xi Jinping and the EU, EUISS Alert 22 - https://www.iss.europa.eu/sites/default/files/EUISSFiles/Alert_22_China-EU.pdf
2014. Visions of North-East Asia: China, Japan, Korea and the EU, EUISS Brief 19 - https://www.iss.europa.eu/sites/default/files/EUISSFiles/Brief_19_North_East_Asia.pdf
2014. How Europe and the United States Can Boost Cooperation and Manage Competition in Asia, Wilson Briefs - https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/how-europe-and-the-united-states-can-boost-cooperation-and-manage-competition-asia
2013. The European 'pivot', EUISS Alert 3 - https://www.iss.europa.eu/sites/default/files/EUISSFiles/Alert_Asia.pdf
2013. The EU-China partnership: 10 years on, EUISS Brief 35 - https://www.iss.europa.eu/sites/default/files/EUISSFiles/Brief_35_EU-China_relations.pdf
2012. China’s geoeconomic strategy: China’s approach to US debt and the Eurozone crisis, in Nicholas Kitchen (ed.), LSE IDEAS Special Report - https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/44208/
2012. EU foreign policy in the Asia Pacific: striking the right balance between the US, China and ASEAN, EUISS Analysis - https://it.scribd.com/document/109707312/EU-Foreign-Policy-in-the-Asia-Pacific-Striking-the-Right-Balance-Between-the-US-China-and-ASEAN
2011. Security developments in East Asia: what implications for the EU?, EUISS Policy Brief n. 7 - https://www.iss.europa.eu/sites/default/files/EUISSFiles/PB007-Security_developments_in_East_Asia_-_what_implications_for_the_EU_0.pdf
2010. Memorandum to House of Lords on EU-China relations in science and technology, with particular attention to satellite navigation cooperation, London: House of Lords - https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200910/ldselect/ldeucom/76/76we03.htm
2008. ‘La politica cinese nel mondo e in Asia centrale’, Italian Senate, Study n. 84 - https://www.senato.it/application/xmanager/projects/leg16/attachments/dossier/file_internets/000/006/940/84.pdf
2006. The evolution of the EU-China relationship: from constructive engagement to strategic partnership, EUISS Occasional Paper n. 64 - https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/a1b1433e-84a6-43f2-8590-555709254a17/language-en
2001. Asia-Europe Relations within the Evolving Global Economy: The Interplay between Business and Politics, Milan: ISPI-Bocconi University, Research Paper n. 15.