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Sex, Violence, and the Avant-Garde: Anarchism in Interwar France

focuses on issues such as self-growth and bilateral development, which are argued as not always compatible. There are, nevertheless, a number of ‘gaps’ in the selection of relations and specific issues, and in the application of the initial approach. Although the book provides detailed and valuable materials informed by theoretical analyses from different angles, it particularly focuses on the international and foreign policy role of the EU rather than providing equal discussion of the EU’s Asian partners. In addition, there are two chapters that touch upon the EU’s foreign policy in terms of the EU’s multilateral approach and its international actorness respectively, while there is no chapter dedicated to an evaluation of ‘European’ strategies towards Asia. Moreover, there is a discernible change in the ‘tone’ between part 1 and parts 2–3, and chapters that deal with empirical issues do not consistently revisit the more analytical approaches discussed in part 1. Perhaps some ‘bridges’ between parts as well as the application of the conceptual analyses to assess empirical findings would be needed. The chapter on the partnership between the EU and China, by Dai Bingran, is an excellent review of various issue areas between the two, but the discussion is bilateral rather than regionally focused, except for one section about world and regional peace and security. There are impressive and valuable chapters about EU–Thailand bilateral and regional military co-operation and the EU’s regional approach to problems in Southern Thailand respectively; however, there is no discussion of other Asian regional security and anti-terrorism issues in which the EU might wish to increase its influence and play a bigger role. Furthermore, the book lacks an overall evaluation of those dynamic dialogues, considering the constraints that have undermined their effectiveness and how to tackle these challenges. Despite gaps and unevenness in the coverage and the discussion provided by the book, all in all, its presentation is very clear and provides readers with a wide range of in-depth analyses about key issues and specific relations between the EU and Asia. The objective of this book is well achieved and the structure, the approach and the content of the book offer readers the possibility to learn and to conduct further research based on a very solid introduction. Thus, this book should be strongly recommended.