| ID | 186859 |
| Title Proper | Empathy or calculation? |
| Other Title Information | a critical analysis of vaccination geopolitics in Latin America |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Malacalza, Bernabe ; Fagaburu, Debora |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Vaccination geopolitics is an effort by the producer countries characterized by a struggle for access and influence that accompanies the export agreements, setting up of manufacturing plants, and donations. The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated vaccine nationalism, United States–China clashes, and inequality of access in Latin America. This article offers an in-depth analysis of the geopolitical strategies emerging around vaccine transactions in the region. Focusing on the precedence of geopolitical concerns over health ones, the article uses a study of transaction distribution to analyze the political preferences of the United States and the European countries, China, India, and Russia. This points to two kinds of influence: the Chinese and Russian strategies are dominated by offensive and defensive political preferences combined with a ground-up economic diplomacy, while those of the United States, Europe, and India are also offensive-defensive, but the economic diplomacy is top down. |
| `In' analytical Note | Global Governance Vol. 28, No.3; Jul-Sep 2022: p.432–456 |
| Journal Source | Global Governance Vol: 28 No 3 |
| Key Words | Latin America ; COVID - 19 ; External Aid ; Vaccine Geopolitics |