This article investigates cooperation efforts on the part of Argentina, Brazil and Chile (the ABC countries) in Haiti. It addresses two salient puzzles. First, why did ABC countries miss the opportunity to build a stronger strategic approach in Haiti, despite the favourable setting presented by a multinational stabilisation and development initiative? Second, why has their cooperation in Haiti not surmounted typical characteristics of North-South cooperation, such as poor coordination? It is argued that the absence of strategic cooperation between the ABC countries and the reproduction of problems plaguing North-South cooperation derive from a complex mix of factors, including philosophically different models of economic development, historical rivalries and the interaction between the ABC countries and Haitian political actors.

La geopolítica de vacunas es un empeño de las potencias productoras caracterizado por la puja por accesos e influencia que acompaña a los acuerdos de exportaciones, de instalación de plantas productoras y de donaciones. La pandemia de covid-19 ha exacerbado el nacionalismo de vacunas, la disputa entre Estados Unidos-China y las desigualdades de acceso en América Latina. El aporte de este artículo radica en hacer un análisis en profundidad de las estrategias geopolíticas que se verifican en torno a las transacciones de vacunas en la región. Desde la precedencia de lo geopolítico sobre lo sanitario, analizamos, a partir de un estudio de la distribución de transacciones, las preferencias políticas de Estados Unidos y los países europeos, China, India y Rusia. Encontramos dos tipos de influencia: en las estrategias china y rusa prevalecen preferencias políticas ofensivas y defensivas combinadas con diplomacia económica de base; en las de Estados Unidos, Europa e India, las preferencias políticas también son ofensivas-defensivas pero la diplomacia económica es de cúpula.

What led to the boom of Chinese development cooperation in Latin America? This article provides a systematic analysis of China’s foreign behavior, motives, and policies regarding development cooperation toward the region between 2000 and 2014. I propose a comparative framework that defines Chinese development cooperation as a tool of economic diplomacy. Drawing on empirical evidence from AidData’s Global Chinese Official Finance Dataset and Chinese white papers on foreign aid, the findings evidence that China was motivated by multiple and conjunctural factors in providing development cooperation. In the realm of theory, the article contributes to the literature on economic statecraft—filling in gaps in understanding the relationship between economics and politics. Empirically, it provides a set of tools for understanding the important role that development cooperation plays in a nation’s statecraft. Regarding Chinese foreign policy studies, it offers insight into the financial dimension of China’s international economic relations.

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