IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/glopol/v15y2024is3p130-142.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Colombia – US relations in an era of great power competition

Author

Listed:
  • Aaron Marchant
  • Joshua Stroud

Abstract

Latin America and the Caribbean is becoming the next region of strategic importance in an era of great power competition, and no other country is more pivotal to the balance of power there than Colombia. Chinese influence in Latin America and the Caribbean has increased tremendously in the last decade through the expansion of the Belt and Road Initiative, trade volumes, and diplomatic pressures on Latin American and Caribbean countries, both for them to recognize Beijing's government and to remain quiet in international fora about Beijing's human rights violations. Field work conducted in Colombia complemented by consultation of qualitative and quantitative secondary sources revealed that Colombia has been an exception, receiving less Chinese attention and investment compared to other countries in the region. Colombia's special relationship with the United States, its own reluctance to turn towards China, and China's decision to prioritize other nations in the region emerge as reasons for why Colombia is an exceptional case. And yet, looking ahead, this reality is likely to change. The United States must act deliberately and decisively now to strengthen its special relationship with Colombia and thus maintain its strategic standing in Latin America for the coming decades.

Suggested Citation

  • Aaron Marchant & Joshua Stroud, 2024. "Colombia – US relations in an era of great power competition," Global Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 15(S3), pages 130-142, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:glopol:v:15:y:2024:i:s3:p:130-142
    DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.13340
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13340
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1111/1758-5899.13340?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Alicia García-Herrero & Jianwei Xu, 2019. "Countries’ perceptions of China’s Belt and Road Initiative- A big data analysis," Bruegel Working Papers 29318, Bruegel.
    2. de Soyres, François & Mulabdic, Alen & Murray, Siobhan & Rocha, Nadia & Ruta, Michele, 2019. "How much will the Belt and Road Initiative reduce trade costs?," International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 159(C), pages 151-164.
    3. Ding Ding & Fabio Di Vittorio & Ana Lariau & Yue Zhou, 2021. "Chinese Investment in Latin America: Sectoral Complementarity and the Impact of China’s Rebalancing," IMF Working Papers 2021/160, International Monetary Fund.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Chen, Maggie Xiaoyang & Lin, Chuanhao, 2020. "Geographic connectivity and cross-border investment: The Belts, Roads and Skies," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 146(C).
    2. Damoah, Kaku Attah & Giovannetti, Giorgia & Marvasi, Enrico, 2022. "Do country centrality and similarity to China matter in the allocation of belt and road projects?," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 62(C), pages 660-674.
    3. de Soyres, François & Mulabdic, Alen & Ruta, Michele, 2020. "Common transport infrastructure: A quantitative model and estimates from the Belt and Road Initiative," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 143(C).
    4. World Bank, 2020. "South Caucasus and Central Asia - The Belt and Road Initiative," World Bank Publications - Reports 34118, The World Bank Group.
    5. Jianhong Qi & Kam Ki Tang & Da Yin & Yong Zhao, 2020. "Remaking China’s Global Image with the Belt and Road Initiative: Is the Jury Out?," Discussion Papers Series 635, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    6. World Bank, 2020. "South Caucasus and Central Asia - The Belt and Road Initiative," World Bank Publications - Reports 34119, The World Bank Group.
    7. Ciani, Andrea & Mau, Karsten, 2023. "Delivery times in international competition: An empirical investigation," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 161(C).
    8. Alexander Sandkamp & Vincent Stamer & Shuyao Yang, 2022. "Where has the rum gone? The impact of maritime piracy on trade and transport," Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), Springer;Institut für Weltwirtschaft (Kiel Institute for the World Economy), vol. 158(3), pages 751-778, August.
    9. Duran-Fernandez, Roberto, 2024. "Nearshoring in Mexico: Navigating Expectations and Realities of the Reconfiguration of Global Value Chains," EconStor Preprints 301885, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
    10. Xiang (Joanna) Quan, 2024. "Colombia's economic relations with China: The role of economics and politics in trade, investment, and economic agreements," Global Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 15(S3), pages 143-159, June.
    11. Baniya, Suprabha & Rocha, Nadia & Ruta, Michele, 2020. "Trade effects of the New Silk Road: A gravity analysis," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 146(C).
    12. Lall, Somik V. & Lebrand, Mathilde, 2020. "Who wins, who loses? Understanding the spatially differentiated effects of the belt and road initiative," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 146(C).
    13. Amoozad Mahdiraji, Hannan & Yaftiyan, Fatemeh & Abbasi-Kamardi, Aliasghar & Vrontis, Demetris & Gong, Yu, 2024. "Disentangling the resiliency of international transportation systems under uncertainty by a novel multi-layer spherical fuzzy decision-making framework: Evidence from an emerging economy," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 186(C).
    14. Zheng, Shiyuan & Chen, Xirong & Dong, Kangyin & Wang, Kun & Fu, Xiaowen, 2022. "Joint investment on resilience of cross-country transport infrastructure," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 166(C), pages 406-423.
    15. Tianbo Wu & Dan Zhou & Hao Cheng & Keqiu Zhang & Yihao Jiang, 2023. "Research on the Policy Effects and Impact Mechanisms of the Belt and Road Initiative on China’s Forest Products Trade," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(12), pages 1-17, June.
    16. Linda Calabrese & Rhys Jenkins & Lorena Lombardozzi, 2024. "The Belt and Road Initiative and Dynamics of Structural Transformation," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 36(3), pages 515-547, June.
    17. Guo, Yaoqi & Li, Yingli & Liu, Yongheng & Zhang, Hongwei, 2023. "The impact of geopolitical relations on the evolution of cobalt trade network from the perspective of industrial chain," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 85(PA).
    18. Koffi Dumor & Li Yao, 2019. "Estimating China’s Trade with Its Partner Countries within the Belt and Road Initiative Using Neural Network Analysis," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(5), pages 1-22, March.
    19. Alice Nicole Sindzingre, 2021. "Economic Relationships Between Sub-Saharan Africa and China: An Alternative Theoretical and Policy Paradigm?," Post-Print halshs-03625159, HAL.
    20. Claudio Ferrari & Alessio Tei, 2020. "Effects of BRI strategy on Mediterranean shipping transport," Journal of Shipping and Trade, Springer, vol. 5(1), pages 1-18, December.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bla:glopol:v:15:y:2024:i:s3:p:130-142. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/lsepsuk.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.