External Powers in Latin America

Gian Luca Gardini is Professor of International Relations and Chair of International Business and Society Relations with focus on Latin America at Friedrich-Alexander University, Germany. He has a vast experience as an academic and a practitioner of international affairs. He has held teaching and visiting positions at the University of Cambridge and Bath in the UK, Shandong University in China, the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil and the University of Bologna in Italy. He has collaborated with the OECD, the Chilean Foreign Ministry, the House of Lords, the UK Foreign Office and the Foreign Policy Instrument of the European Union among others. His research interests cover the international relations of Latin America, the impact of COVID-19 on international affairs, international trade and trade policy, foreign policy analysis, and comparative regional integration. Among his recent books are Interregionalism and the Americas (2018) and The World before and after Covid-19 (2020).

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• Introduction: Analysis and "normalisation" of the surge of external powers in Latin AmericaGian Luca Gardini The United States in Latin America: Lasting Asymmetries, Waning Influence?Tom Long The European Union in Latin America: A "neighbour" of valuesGian Luca Gardini China in Latin America: Winning Hearts and Minds PragmaticallyCarol Wise Russia in Latin AmericaRichard G. Miles Renewed Japanese Involvement in Latin AmericaBarbara Stallings and Kotaro Horisaka Emergency and Opportunity: Canada and the Venezuela Crisis Yvon Grenier From Tagore to IT: India’s changing presence in Latin AmericaJorge Heine and Hari Seshasayee Turkey in Latin America: Tenacity in a changing international environmentMarta Tawil-Kuri Iran’s Latin America Strategy and the Challenges to the Balance of PowerPenny L. Watson Israel-Latin American Relations: What Has Changed in the Last Decade and Why? Arie M. Kacowicz, Exequiel Lacovsky, Daniel F. Wajner Patron or partner? Asymmetry and complementarity in economic relations between South Korea and Latin AmericaJuan Felipe López Aymes and Jae Sung Kwak Taiwan and Its Latin American Allies: An Uphill Diplomatic CampaignChung-Chian Teng Strengthening Indonesia-Latin America Economic Relations: A Partnership for a Better FutureSulthon Sjahril Sabaruddin Latin America and ASEAN: More than a Marginal Relationship?Jörn Dosch Latin America and South Africa in the 21st century: a romance with no future? The cases of Brazil, Argentina and VenezuelaGladys Lechini and Agustina Marchetti Distant Neighbours: Australia-Latin America Relations Sean BurgesConclusion: Geopolitics between neo-extractivism and South-South CooperationGian Luca Gardini