Overview
Written by a leading expert who has served in a senior policymaking position wrestling with this subject
Offers a comprehensive look at Chinese engagement in Latin America and the Caribbean
Highlights the strategic nature of the Chinese challenge for Latin America, including dynamics of the Covid-19 pandemic
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About this book
This book explores China’s engagement with Latin America and the Caribbean as a case study of its broader effort to use commercial tools and instruments of state to create a global economic order that functions to its benefit, while neutralizing challenges from institutions, states, and others that would oppose it. Unlike the common representation of the Cold War as a political-military struggle, this work uniquely examines China’s current efforts as primarily seeking to dominate global value chains, with supporting political, technological, and military components. In this regard, it both leverages and goes beyond works based on dependency theory, which has played a key role in the academic and popular discourse in the region.
The book examines evidence for China’s economically-focused strategy within Latin America and the Caribbean, including the interrelationships and coordination between China’s activities in different sectors, and between commercial, political, and other dimensions in the region. It further looks at the supporting role played by a diverse range of Chinese initiatives, from China’s Belt and Road initiative, to people-to-people diplomacy, soft power, security engagement, and the PRC struggle with Taiwan for diplomatic recognition in the region, among others. The book highlights the implications for Latin America and the Caribbean, and for the U.S. whose prosperity and security is intimately tied to the region.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
R. Evan Ellis is a research professor of Latin American Studies in the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College. His research focuses on Latin America's relationships with China and other non-Western Hemisphere actors, as well as transnational organized crime and populism in the region. He has published over 330 works, including China in Latin America: The Whats and Wherefores (2009), The Strategic Dimension of Chinese Engagement with Latin America (2013), China on the Ground in Latin America (2014), and Transnational Organized Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean (2018).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: China Engages Latin America
Book Subtitle: Distorting Development and Democracy?
Authors: R. Evan Ellis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96049-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96048-3Published: 15 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96051-3Published: 16 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-96049-0Published: 14 March 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 288
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Foreign Policy, International Relations, Political Economy/Economic Systems, International Security Studies, Political Science, Asian Politics