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.

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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.

Inhalt
1.Introduction: Understanding China-Latin America Relations as Part of the Transition of the World OrderRaúl Bernal-Meza
2.Advancing Autonomy? Chinese Influence on Regional Governance in Latin AmericaThomas Legler, Mariano Turzi, and Eduardo Tzili-Apango.
3.One Step Closer: The Politics and the Economics of China's Strategy in Brazil and the Case of the Electric Power SectorDanielly Ramos Becard, Antônio Carlos Lessa and Laura Urrejola Silveira
4.Cooperative Relations with China in Brazil's International Politics: Scope and Interests of the Global Strategic PartnershipLincoln Bizzozero and Andrés Raggio
5.A Goat's Cycle: The Relations between Argentina and the People's Republic of China during the Kirchner and Macri Administrations (2003-18)Raúl Bernal-Meza and Juan Manuel Zanabria
6.ChinaVenezuela Relations in a Context of ChangeJosé Briceño-Ruiz and Norbert Molina Medina
7.Chile and China, 2000-2016: the Humming Bird and the Panda César Ross
8.China and Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay: Similarities and Differences Eduardo Daniel Oviedo
9.Revisiting Chinese and Latin American Economic Development: an Unintended Consequence of Different Industrialization Strategies Li Xing
10.Conclusion: China and Latin America in Global Political economy - the Development of a New Core-periphery Axis Raúl Bernal-Meza