This book conceptualizes the economic relations between China and Latin America in different national cases from the perspectives of international political economy–based structuralism theory, the core-periphery model and the world system theory. It contributes to the interpretation of the consequences of the interaction between China’s successful modernization and Latin America’s failed development model.
Raúl Bernal-Meza is Professor at the National University of Central Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the Arturo Prat University, Chile. Raul is a specialist in international relations in Latin America.
Li Xing is Professor and Director of the Research Centre on Development and International Relations, Department of Politics and Society, Aalborg University, Denmark. His research areas are international relations, international political economy, emerging powers and world order.
This book conceptualizes the economic relations between China and Latin America in different national cases from the perspectives of international political economy–based structuralism theory, the core-periphery model and the world system theory. It contributes to the interpretation of the consequences of the interaction between China’s successful modernization and Latin America’s failed development model.
Provides a general and actualized vision of the structure of China’s relations with the Latin American region Focuses analytically on China’s global strategy through a study of different national cases seen from Latin American perspectives Points out the overall pattern of China-Latin American relations as taking the form of a North-South axis in which Latin America and particularly South America plays a specific role in China’s economic development strategy and in its global strategy
Raúl Bernal-Meza
China Latin America political economy relations global strategy of development global power foreign policy strategy economic hegemony periphery bilateral economic relations autonomy dependency regional governance commercial financial cooperative