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This chapter will discuss the foreign policy activity of the United States and China with regards to the developing world. The United States found developing regions particularly important during the Cold War and continues to be a powerful force economically and politically. China has increased its own presence in these regions beginning in the 1990s. More recently, we have seen an increased interest in the developing world made manifest through the development of counter global development banking institutions. The battle between Bretton Woods institutions and BRICS institutions seeks to solidify a world-system to serve the prestige of leading states within these regimes. These two powers, the United States and China, are continuing to compete in these regions to create a political-economic bloc, a neoempire, serving its own power acquisition purposes.
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Thanks to my Professor Bruce Bagley for his kind comments at the “Consequences of the Fall” 2016 Energy Conference at the University of Miami.
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Kassab, H.S. (2018). The Global South and the Neoempires of the United States and China. In: Grand Strategies of Weak States and Great Powers. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70404-3_5
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