Abstract
China’s rise is often interpreted as a harbinger of a new era in world politics and raises the question if such a power transition may impact upon patterns of democratic rule across the globe. There is growing interest in whether China acts as an outside stabilizer for other authoritarian regimes. This paper contributes to the emerging literature on the international dimension of autocratic rule by focusing on Chinese Latin American policy. Using the method of structured focused comparisons, we want to assess whether China’s relations towards the Latin American autocracies Cuba and Venezuela differ from those with structurally similar, but democratic cooperation partners in the region, namely Costa Rica and Chile. The guiding question is whether we can detect such a pattern of specific bilateral relationships between China and other autocracies, leading to an ‘authoritarian nexus’ in Chinese foreign policy. Resumen: ?Un ‘nexo autoritario’? Supuesta relacion especial de China con Estados autocraticos de America Latina El ascenso de China se suele interpretar como un presagio de una nueva era en la politica mundial y plantea la cuestion de si dicha transicion de poder podria repercutir en los patrones de la democracia en el mundo entero. La cuestion de si China actua como estabilizador externo para otros regimenes autoritarios suscita cada vez mas interes. Este articulo es una contribucion a la bibliografia emergente sobre la dimension internacional de los sistemas autocraticos enfocandose en la politica chino-latinoamericana. Mediante el metodo de las comparaciones estructuradas y focalizadas, queremos evaluar si las relaciones de China con las autocracias latinoamericanas de Cuba y Venezuela difieren de las relaciones con otros aliados estructuralmente similares, pero democraticos en la region, como Costa Rica y Chile. La pregunta clave es si podemos detectar este patron de relaciones bilaterales especificas entre China y otras autocracias, un patron que desemboque en un ‘nexo autoritario’ en la politica exterior china.
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