China’s economic presence in Latin America has grown remarkably in recent years. It now stands as a major alternative to Western sources of trade, investment and technology, providing Latin American states with new options and opportunities to purse greater autonomy from particularly the US. The seminar will analyze this growth of China’s economic role in Latin America, how it affects the geopolitical and geoeconomic environment in the region, and what the strategic implications are for Europe and the US. It will also discuss pertinent topics such as the increasing importance of US and Russian influence in Venezuela’s crisis and how that may affect China’s role and policies.
Puhujat
Nonresident Scholar, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
Professor of International Political Economy, Rosario University
Senior Research Fellow, the Finnish Institute of International Affairs
Puheenjohtaja
Äldre forskare
Elina Sinkkonen is a Senior Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs and holds the title of Docent in East Asian Studies, specifically East Asian Politics, at the University of Turku. Her research interests include great power relations, authoritarian regimes, regional security in East Asia, Chinese nationalism, public opinion issues in China and domestic-foreign policy nexus in IR theory. Sinkkonen’s ongoing research focuses on technology in the great power struggle and more precisely understanding China’s innovation ecosystem, technological advancement, tech financing, and regulation. Technology theme relates to two externally funded projects.
Sinkkonen’s work has been published in Political Psychology, Democratization, The China Quarterly, The Pacific Review, European Review of International Studies and European Foreign Affairs Review, among others. She received her doctorate from the University of Oxford at the Department of Politics and International Relations. Her co-edited book on the new roles of women in Chinese society won the 2016 Kanava prize, which is given to the best Finnish book in the fields of politics, society, economics, history or culture.