Economic Displacement: China and the End of US Primacy in Latin America [Paperback]

China's economic displacement of the US in Latin America erodes US political leverage, challenging international order.Offers a groundbreaking analysis of China's rising economic influence in Latin America and its impact on US hegemony. Essential for policymakers, scholars, and students of international relations, it provides crucial insights into shifting global power dynamics and illuminates the future of US-China competition and Latin American geopolitics.Offers a groundbreaking analysis of China's rising economic influence in Latin America and its impact on US hegemony. Essential for policymakers, scholars, and students of international relations, it provides crucial insights into shifting global power dynamics and illuminates the future of US-China competition and Latin American geopolitics.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 USChina rivalry in Latin America.Part I. Economic Displacement: 1. Economic Weight and Displacement: A New Framework for Understanding USChina 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 Displacemen