“地缘经济欧洲”:欧盟对外经济政策调整的分析框架

“Geo-economic Europe”:An Analytical Framework for the Adjustment of EU’s Foreign Economic Policy

在地缘政治回归与经济全球化时代,地缘经济与地缘政治之间的界限趋于模糊。与此同时,欧洲地缘经济实力衰退,经济竞争压力与安全风险增加。对此,欧盟进行地缘政治转型,调整对外经济政策,以期重新焕发地缘经济活力。本文从地缘经济视角出发,基于地缘结构与地缘政治对地缘经济的作用关系,提出“地缘经济欧洲”概念,为欧盟对外经济政策调整构建一个分析框架。具体而言,一体化的欧洲是“地缘经济欧洲”的主体。激烈的国际地缘政治与经济竞争是“地缘经济欧洲”的环境氛围。周边、区域及全球构成“地缘经济欧洲”的整体框架。作为“地缘经济欧洲”的建设方式,欧盟强调财富与权力之间的相互转化,通过控制经济资源与市场追求权力目标。“地缘经济欧洲”指导欧盟调整对外经济政策,在开发贸易保护工具、实施经济强制的同时,维护多边主义,丰富全球伙伴关系网络,以适应世界地缘经济新形态。

When the return of geopolitics encounters economic globalization,the boundary between geoeconomics and geopolitics has become blurred. While Europe’ s geoeconomic strengthhas declined, the pressure of economic competition and security risks has increased. Inview of this situation, the EU has been conducting geopolitical transformation along withadjusted foreign economic policy, in order to rejuvenate geo-economic vitality. From theperspective of geoeconomics and based on the geo-structure and the effect of geopolitics ongeoeconomics, this article puts forward the concept of “geo-economic Europe” as an analytical framework for the adjustment of EU’s foreign economic policy. Specifically speaking, while the integrated Europe acts as the main body of “geo-economic Europe”, the intense international geopolitical and economic competition plays the role of external environment, and the neighbourhood, the regional and global levels constitute the overall framework of “geo-economic Europe”. As a way of constructing “geo-economic Europe”, theEU puts an emphasis on mutual transformation between wealth and power and on the pursuit of power goals by controlling economic resources and markets. The concept of “geo-economic Europe” is meant to guide the adjustment of EU’s foreign economic policy, withwhich the EU safeguards multilateralism and diversifies its global partnership network in order to adapt to the new form of geoeconomics in the world by developing trade protectiontools and exerting economic coercion.