2025/03/24 by Klaas Dykmann, Dykmann, Klaas, Nicolai Hausgaard Kjær Hede +1
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences · #CELAC #China #Global Political and Economic Relations #Global trade and economics #Hegemony #International Development and Aid #Position #Western Hemisphere
paper · doi:10.18441/ibam.25.2025.88.161-183
openalex publication_date 2025/03/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
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.