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The Political Economy of China–Latin America Relations: The AIIB Membership
Time：2019-01-08
Fudan-LSE Lecture Series No.3
TITLE: | The Political Economy of China–Latin America Relations: The AIIB Membership | |
SPEAKER: HOST: TIME: VENUE: | Professor Alvaro Mendez Professor Yijia Jing 12:00, January 8, 2019 Room 622 , Wenke Building, Handan Campus | |
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THE SPEAKER
Dr. Alvaro Mendez is Co-Director of the Global South Unit at the London School of Economics, where he is also a Senior Research Fellow. He is also a Senior Fudan Fellow; and a former editor of Millennium-Journal of International Studies at the LSE. He currently lectures at the LSE on courses such as China and the Global South and Foreign Policy Analysis. LSE’s International Relations Department awarded him its 2003-2004 Teaching Prize. His most recent publications include Colombian Agency and the Making of US Foreign Policy (Routledge, 2017); Global Governance in Foreign Policy (Oxford University Press, 2018); and The China-Latin America Axis: Emerging Markets and their Role in an Increasingly Globalised World (Palgrave, 2018).
ABSTRACT
The creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has been having major policy implications for Asia, Africa and Europe. This lecture investigates what implications, if any, it has for Latin America, a region that China has been investing in more and more. The Bank currently has 93 current and prospective members, 68 fully subscribed, of which Sudan is the latest, and 25 that have been approved by the Board of Directors to join the Bank. Seven out of these 25 “prospective members” are Latin American: Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, and Ecuador.
