China engages Latin America : distorting development and democracy / R. Evan Ellis.
2022
DS740.5.L37 E45 2022
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Title
China engages Latin America : distorting development and democracy / R. Evan Ellis.
Author
Ellis, Robert Evan, author.
ISBN
9783030960490 electronic book
3030960498 electronic book
303096048X
9783030960483
3030960498 electronic book
303096048X
9783030960483
Published
Cham Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xix, 288 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-96049-0 doi
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DS740.5.L37 E45 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification
327.5108
Summary
This book explores Chinas 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 Chinas 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 Chinas economically-focused strategy within Latin America and the Caribbean, including the interrelationships and coordination between Chinas 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 Chinas 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. 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).
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. China's Efforts to Reorient the Global Economic Order to its Benefit
Chapter 3. The Development of China's Relationship with Latin America
Chapter 4. China's Economic Struggle for Position in Latin America
Chapter 5. Chinese Soft Power
Chapter 6. The Struggle for Diplomatic Recognition and its Implications
Chapter 7. The Question of Leftist Populist Regimes
Chapter 8. Military Engagement and its Role
Chapter 9. Impact of Covid-19 in Accelerating China's Advance
Chapter 10. Why does it Matter and What to do.
Chapter 2. China's Efforts to Reorient the Global Economic Order to its Benefit
Chapter 3. The Development of China's Relationship with Latin America
Chapter 4. China's Economic Struggle for Position in Latin America
Chapter 5. Chinese Soft Power
Chapter 6. The Struggle for Diplomatic Recognition and its Implications
Chapter 7. The Question of Leftist Populist Regimes
Chapter 8. Military Engagement and its Role
Chapter 9. Impact of Covid-19 in Accelerating China's Advance
Chapter 10. Why does it Matter and What to do.