Abstract
This article examines China’s engagement from 2008 to 2018 with the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). We ask whether China has utilized CELAC as a counter-hegemonic challenge to US dominance in the Western Hemisphere. To analyze this question, we delved deeper into the theoretical debates around rationalist and neo-Gramscian notions of hegemony and applied four types of China-promoted multilateral institutions to CELAC. We argue that China’s engagement with CELAC functioned as an “institutional offshore balancing” strategy, advancing a largely pragmatic and non-confrontational to avoid a Kindleberger Trap.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Tidsskrift | Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal |
Vol/bind | 25 |
Udgave nummer | 88 |
Sider (fra-til) | 161-183 |
Antal sider | 23 |
ISSN | 1577-3388 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - 27 mar. 2025 |
Emneord
- Position
- China
- CELAC
- Hegemony
- Western Hemisphere