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Economic Displacement examines China's economic displacement of the United States in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), and its implications for global geopolitics. Through data analysis and case studies, Francisco Urdinez demonstrates how China has filled the economic void left by US retrenchment from 2001 to 2020. He argues that this economic shift has led to a significant erosion of US political influence in the region, affecting public opinion, elite perspective, and voting patterns in international organizations. Providing a multifaceted view of this geopolitical transformation in this timely and important book, the author offers crucial insights into the changing landscape of global influence and the future of US-China rivalry in Latin America.
List of contents
Part I. Economic Displacement: 1. Economic Weight and Displacement: A New Framework for Understanding US-China Rivalry; 2. China's Economic Displacement of the US in Latin America; 3. Filling the Void: Chinese Economic Actors and the Provision of Substitute Goods; 4. The Demand Side: Latin American Agency in Economic Displacement; Part II. Political Implications of Economic Displacement: 5. The Effects of Economic Displacement on Public Opinion and Political Elites; 6. The Effects of Economic Displacement in International Organizations; 7. The New Cold War and the Future of China-US Rivalry in LAC.
About the author
Francisco Urdinez is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Political Science of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, where he also directs the Nucleus Millennium project on China's Impacts in Latin America, a large three-year grant funded by the Ministry of Science of Chile. He served as a 2022-23 Resident Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC. He is a Fellow of the Chilean Fund for Scientific and his work on China's relations with the Global South has been published in Comparative Political Studies, Review of International Organization, Journal of Peace Research, Research & Politics, The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, among others.
