A Counter-Hegemonic Challenge in the Western Hemisphere? The Relations between China and CELAC (2008-2018)

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https://doi.org/10.18441/ibam.25.2025.88.161-183

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Position, China, CELAC, Hegemony, Western Hemisphere

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.

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2025-03-27

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Vol. 25 No. 88 (2025)

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Articles and Essays

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