China’s Global Security Initiative: Reflections from Central America

 

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Autores: Méndez-Coto, Marco Vinicio, Vásquez Guzmán, Nirel Marie
Formáid: artículo original
Stádas:Versión publicada
Fecha de Publicación:2025
Cur Síos:The contemporary international system is characterized by its multipolarity. In the process of systemic change in recent decades, there has been a strategic competition between the major powers, with the United States and the People’s Republic of China standing out. This competition generates tensions at the ideational level related to narratives, and in the material associated with the distribution of economic and military capabilities and the influence that derives from them.While the Central American region is, from a geopolitical point of view, an area of US influence, the process of systemic change has enabled the People’s Republic of China to acquire, progressively and increasingly, a fundamental role as a partner of these nations, which is accompanied by a foreign policy strategy and a narrative that clashes with the values and ideas dominant in the West, and is perceived as threatening by the United States and the new Trump administration.The purpose of this article is to understand the dynamics of strategic competition between the US and China, and its effects in Central America. In this context, the security dimension will be examined, taking as a reference the “Global Security Initiative” proposed by China in 2022 as a narrative against the prevailing perspective in the West, and its impact on the development of security cooperation with countries in the region.
País:Portal de Revistas UNA
Institiúid:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UNA
Teanga:Español
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OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.una.ac.cr:article/21156
Rochtain Ar Líne:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/ri/article/view/21156
Palabra clave:Central America
China
geopolitics
Global Security Initiative
international security
USA
América Central
Estados Unidos
geopolítica
Iniciativa de Seguridad Global
seguridad internacional