European influence on Chinese Data protection policy: An iterative approach to normative power Europe
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2023-08-13
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his research buids on Mamers' concept of Normave Power Europe to examine how the EU has
suocessfully consiructed ils nonnative power in its in1etaction wilh CM\EI in the field of data protection policy.
Whereas pcevious NPE scholarshipsolely focuses on EU norm diffusion mec:hanisms. the current anatytical frsmeWOfk also incocporates China's response to these mechanisms. This iterative approach illJr'rta'lates
how lhe EU has aqusted it:s effons towards China over time. S1aning from the 1990s. the EU initialty made use of the transfereotial, cultural fit et end later 1he relativety shc:rt.red procedural mechanism on the basis
al h.ndamental human righls promotion. Alter Chinese obsttuclion fcllowed as a reaC'lion to fundameotal
cisagreemeol on the universality of human rights, the EU redirected hs policy to similar mechanisms but based on incremental technical developnent of legislation. Allhough qualified by Chinese officials on the basis ol the relaffl irl1)0rtance of national security and economie growth, thi:s ooope,ation through naemental technica! developmenl ol leg slation gradualy pushed Chwl to adopt European data protection norms and constitute a right to privacy in its Civil Code
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen