Publications

Books

Monographs

2027. Understanding EU-China Relations. An introduction. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
2009. Remaking Global Order: The Evolution of Europe-China Relations and its Implications for East Asia and the United States. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

PhD dissertation

2006. A critical analysis of European Union foreign policy towards China (1995-2005). London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Edited volumes (books)

2027. Middle Powers in Europe-Asia Relations: EU-ROK Cooperation and Italy's Indo-Pacific Strategy London: Routledge (with Antonio Fiori and Marco Milani).
2023. 60 Years of EU-Korea Relations Seoul: Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Press and European Union (with Sihong Kim, Moosung Lee, Eric Ballbach).
2022. The Routledge Handbook of Europe-Korea Relations London: Routledge (with Antonio Fiori, Nam-Kook Kim, Jae-Seung Lee, Ramon Pacheco Pardo).
2021. EU-Korea Security Relations. London: Routledge.
2017. Moving Forward EU-India Relations. Rome: IAI-Nuova Cultura (with Stefania Benaglia and Sameer Patil).
2017. Promoting Security Cooperation and Trust Building in Northeast Asia: The Role of the EU. Rome: IAI-Nuova Cultura.
2013. Brussels-Beijing: changing the game? Paris: European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS).
2007. European Foreign Policy in an Evolving International System: The Road Towards Convergence. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave-Macmillan (with Costanza Musu).

Policy Papers (booklet length)

2019. Defend, Engage, Maximise: A progressive agenda for EU-China relations. Brussels: Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS).
2006. The evolution of the EU-China relationship: from constructive engagement to strategic partnership. Paris: European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS).

Remaking Global Order

60 Years of EU-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?

A progressive agenda for EU-China relations

The evolution of the EU-China relationship

Articles

Articles in peer reviewed journals:

2026. ‘Europe's Added Value for the Korean Peninsula Peace Process’, Peace & Democracy 1(2): 70–89.
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 .
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.
2022. ‘Assessing the pros and cons of the EU-China comprehensive agreement on investment’. Asia Europe Journal 20(1): 1-7.
2020. ‘Rising to the Challenge: Europe’s Security Policy in East Asia amid US-China Rivalry’. The International Spectator 55(4): 1-15.
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.
2018. ‘Europe’s comprehensive approach to Northeast Asia’s security’. Monde Chinois 53(1): 94-102.
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.
2015. ‘China’s Rebalancing towards Europe’. The International Spectator 50(3): 122-129.
2013. 'European Fears – and Hopes – for a Risen China'. The International Spectator 48(3): 130-135.
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.

2007. ‘Europe-China Relations and the New Significance of Central and Eastern European Countries’. International Issues & Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs 16(3): 3-17.
2007. ‘The International Politics of the Chinese Arms Embargo Issue’. The International Spectator, 42(3): 371-389.

Edited and Co-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).
2012. ‘A Rising China and its Strategic Impact'. Special Issue of The International Spectator 47(2).
2009. ‘Evolving Dynamics in the Asia-Pacific.’ Special Issue of The International Spectator 44(2).

A European strategic “third way?” The EU between the United States and China

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

EU’s Security Policy in East Asia amid US-China Rivalry

Tales from a Post-Dollar World

Europe’s approach to Northeast Asia’s security

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?

Eastern Europe and China-EU relations

The International Politics of the Chinese Arms Embargo

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, 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', 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. ‘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 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.
2018. ‘Non-proliferation in EU-Japan relations’ (with Michito Tsuruoka), in Emil Kirchner and Han Dorussen (eds.), EU-Japan Security Cooperation, London: Routledge, pp. 56-73.
2017. ‘Maritime Security and Freedom of Navigation from South China Sea to Mediterranean: Potential and Limits of EU-India Cooperation’, in Nicola Casarini, Stefania Benaglia, and Sameer Patil (eds.), Moving Forward EU-India Relations, Roma: IAI-Nuova Cultura, pp. 21-38.
2016. 'OBOR and Italy: Strengthening the Southern Route of the Maritime Silk Road'. 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), 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.