China’s Global Security Initiative: Reflections from Central America

 

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Autoři: Méndez-Coto, Marco Vinicio, Vásquez Guzmán, Nirel Marie
Médium: artículo original
Stav:Versión publicada
Datum vydání:2025
Popis:The contemporary international system is characterized by its multipolar structure. Over recent decades, in the process of systemic transformations, a strategic competition has been triggered among the major powers, most notably between the United States and the People’s Republic of China. This competition has produced tensions on the ideational level—centered on narratives—and on the material associated with the distribution of economic and military capabilities and the influence that derives from those powers. Although Central America has been considered a sphere of U.S. Geopolitical influence, the process of systemic transformations has enabled the People’s Republic of China to assume a progressively and increasingly fundamental role as a partner of these nations. This development is supported by a foreign policy strategy and a narrative that challenges the values and ideological frameworks dominant in the West, and is perceived as threatening by the United States and the new Trump administration.This article aims to analyze the dynamics of strategic competition between the United States and China, as well as its effects in Central America. Within this framework, the security dimension will be examined, with a focus on China’s 2022 “Global Security Initiative” as a narrative that contrasts with the dominant Western perspective, and on its impact on the development of security cooperation dynamics with countries in the region.
Země:Portal de Revistas UNA
Instituce:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UNA
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On-line přístup:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/ri/article/view/21342
Klíčové slovo:Central America
China
United States
Geopolitics
Global Security Initiative
International Security
América Central
Estados Unidos
geopolítica
Iniciativa Seguridad Global
seguridad internacional