Economic Displacement

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 US–China rivalry in Latin America.

Author Biography

Francisco Urdinez is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Political Science of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, where he also directs the Millennium Nucleus for the Impacts of China in Latin America (ICLAC) project on China’s impacts in Latin America, a large three-year grant funded by the Ministry of Science of Chile. He served as a 2022-23 resident fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC. He is a fellow of the National Agency for Research and Development of Chile and his work on China’s relations with the Global South has been published in Comparative Political Studies, the Review of International Organizations, the Journal of Peace Research, Research & Politics, the Chinese Journal of International Politics, and the Cambridge Review of International Affairs, among others.