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China-US Rivalry and Regional Reordering in Latin America and the Caribbean
This book provides a comprehensive, conceptual and analytical framework for understanding the reordering process in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region, driven and shaped by China–US rivalry. It demonstrates the differences between China–US, China–LAC and US–LAC relations and questions to what extent the LAC region can be considered a unified actor. Exploring broad perspectives such as global governance, international institutions, trade, security policy, climate change, multilateralism and regional and global peace and stability, the contributors also consider China’s Belt and Road Initiative, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and “minilateral” cooperation, sustainable development and business and the role of soft power, such as tourism and education in China–LAC relations. This timely and important contribution analyzing the changing regional order in the LAC region brought about by China’s global rise and increasing hegemonic competition with the US will appeal to scholars and student of international relations, international political economy, and security studies.
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1 International Order Transition and China-US Rivalry: Implication for Lain America
and the Caribbean
Li Xing and Javier Vadell
2 Conceptualizing China-US Rivalry and Its Dynamic Impact on Latin America and the Caribbean
Li Xing
3 The New Projectment Economy, the Chinese Embedded Globalization and Implications for Latin American and the Caribbean
Elias Jabbour, Alexis Dantas, and Javier Vadell
4 China and US Systemic Rivalry in the Contemporary Transition of World Power
Gabriel Esteban Merino
5 The Biden Administration and the Rise of China: Implications for U.S. Policy in Latin America
Gary Prevost
6 Central America and the Caribbean in US-China Strategic Competition
Lourdes María Regueiro Bello, Claudia Marín Suarez and Ruvislei González Saez
7 Too Small to Choose? The Uruguayan Perspectives of Foreign Policy
in the New Scenario
Andrés Raggio
8 The United States and China’s Projections in the Andean Region: A Historical Structural Approach and Post-pandemic Scenarios
Milton Reyes Herrera and Katalina Barreiro
9 Between China and the United States: The Geopolitics of Mexico in the 21st Century
Ada Celsa Cabrera García and Giuseppe Lo Brutto
10 Brazil and the China-US Rivalry: There and Back Again
Leonardo Ramos, Alexandre Leite and Filipe Mendonça
11 China-Argentina Relations in the Framework of the “Necessary Symbiotic Interdependence” and “Strategic (Regional) Autonomy”
Maria Francesca Staiano and Laura Lucía Bogado Bordazar
12 Venezuela and the US-China Dispute
Norbert Molina Medina and Francisco Soto Oraa
13 Chile in the US-China Competition: Defying Zero-sum Logic with Pragmatism and Complementarity?
Florencia Rubiolo and Diego Telias
14 Final Remarks and Perspectives: China-US Rivalry, World Reordering and Latin
American Responses
Javier Vadell and Li Xing
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Biography
Li Xing is a Distinguished Professor at Guangdong Institute for International Strategies (GIIS). He is also a Professor of International Relations in the Department of Politics and Society, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Aalborg University, Denmark. He is also appointed as honorary professor by many Chinese universities. Professor Li has produced a large number of international and Chinese journal publications. Since 2010, he has edited many book series on the theme of the “rise of China and the impact on the existing capitalist world order”. Four of his recent edited volumes are: Mapping China’s One Belt One Road Initiative (Palgrave, 2018); The International Political Economy of the BRICS (Routledge, 2019); China‑Latin America Relations in the 21st Century: The Dual Complexities of Opportunities and Challenges (Palgrave, 2020); and China‑EU Relations in a New Era of Global Transformation (Routledge, 2021).
Javier Vadell fical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas). He is also a Visiting Professor at the National University of Rosario (UNR), Argentina, at Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), and at Jiaxing University, China. He is a Research Fellow at China’s Huaqiao University, Xiamen. He is the Editor‑in‑Chief of Estudos Internacionais, journal of International Relations of PUC Minas. He is a researcher at CNPq, Brazil. He is a member of the CLACSO “China and the map of world power” Working Group. He has published numerous articles and book chapters about Latin America international politics and China.
