Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Ontology, Practice, and Ideology in China-Chile Relations
Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: IR Theory and Practice in Asia
ISBN: 978-1-041-13210-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Coloma examines the bilateral relationship between China and Chile over the past decades and explore an approach that accounts for the plurality of political and ideological dimensions in international relations, particularly concerning non-Western and non-European countries.
The book develops three key claims. Firstly, two socialist countries can arrive at antagonistic understandings of socialism and yet articulate ideological convergences around other elements. Secondly, a communist country can obscure its political divergence from an anti-communist regime by redefining its ideological horizon. Thirdly, the signing of China’s first free trade agreement and its upgrade can be understood as the articulation of political demands and the ideological concealment of antagonisms, rather than as a result of technocratic decisions informed by economic complementarities. These findings suggest that the significance of China’s presence in Latin America depends on how each country articulates the other as an element of its foreign policy and vice versa. It thus shifts our perspective away from dominant interpretations that reduce China to the image of a rising power encroaching on the backyard of the United States.
An insightful book for researchers and academics in Global International Relations, Politics, and those interested in Latin America and China’s relations.
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Academic and Postgraduate
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PART I. PROBLEMATISATION OF THE OBJECT OF STUDY 1 China’s Latin American Pioneer: The problem of matter and ideas to explain Chile-China relations 2 Do Chile-China relations fit mainstream ontology? Solving the matter/ideas conundrum in IR 3 The domestic trap of post-Marxism: On deconstructing hegemony and reimagining the international through the pluriverse PART II. DESIGNING A STRATEGY TO ACCOUNT FOR CHILE-CHINA RELATIONS 4 Post-Marxism and international politics: An analysis strategy to account for international practice PART III. LOGICS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: CHILE-CHINA RELATIONS AS INTERNATIONAL PRACTICES 5 Chile and China in 1970: Logics of the establishment of diplomatic relationships 6 Chile and China in 1978: Logics of bilateral rapprochement 7 Chile and China in 2005: Logics of free trade 8 Chile and China in 2017: Logics of human rights and globalisation PART IV DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS 9 Chile-China relations in a post-Western discipline: Towards a post-Marxist approach to international relations 10 General conclusions
