China-US Rivalry and Regional Reordering in Latin America and the Caribbean

International order transition and China-US rivalry : implication for Latin America and the Caribbean / Li Xing and Javier Vadell -- Conceptualizing China-US rivalry and its dynamic impact on Latin America and the Caribbean / Li Xing -- The new projectment economy, the Chinese embedded globalization and implications for Latin American and the Caribbean / Elias Jabbour, Alexis Dantas, and Javier Vadell -- China and US systemic rivalry in the contemporary transition of world power / Gabriel Esteban Merino -- The Biden administration and the rise of China : implications for U.S. policy in Latin America / Gary Prevost -- Central America and the Caribbean in US-China strategic competition / Lourdes María Regueiro Bello, Claudia Marín Suarez and Ruvislei González Saez -- Too small to choose? The Uruguayan perspectives of foreign policy in the new scenario / Andrés Raggio -- 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 -- Between China and the United States : the geopolitics of Mexico in the 21st century / Ada Celsa Cabrera García and Giuseppe Lo Brutto -- Brazil and the China-US rivalry : there and back again / Leonardo Ramos, Alexandre Leite and Filipe Mendonça -- China-Argentina relations in the framework of the "necessary symbiotic interdependence" and "strategic (regional) autonomy" / Maria Francesca Staiano and Laura Lucía Bogado Bordazar -- Venezuela and the US-China dispute / Norbert Molina Medina and Francisco Soto Oraa -- Chile in the US-China competition : defying zero-sum logic with pragmatism and complementarity? / Florencia Rubiolo and Diego Telias -- Final remarks and perspectives : China-US rivalry, world reordering and Latin American responses / Javier Vadell and Li Xing.

"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"--