Abstract

CANCELADO FRANCO, Henry. From the Nanjing Massacre to the New Silk Road: Geopolitics and Geoeconomics at the Beginning of the 21 ^st Century. rev.relac.int.estrateg.segur. [online]. 2020, vol.15, n.1, pp.31-42.  Epub Aug 21, 2020. ISSN 1909-3063.  https://doi.org/10.18359/ries.4258.

Continuous changes in the international system make states adapt permanently and develop new capacities to achieve influence and power globally. This is the case of China, which has undertaken a series of internal and external transformations that position it as one of the most relevant powers of this century. In this way, the classic tools of geopolitical thinking were adapted to the exercise of a new way of understanding the world: geoeconomics. This way of developing foreign policy is characterized by the use of economic variables in the diplomatic game and deterrence in the community of nations. Then, it becomes relevant to understand how power is currently built, putting the role of the military and war into the background to give way to the economy and markets. This does not mean that the power derived from military capacities disappears; it becomes an important, but subsidiary, deterrence tool secondary to all the tools and strategies derived from the use of the economy.

Keywords : China; strategy; geoeconomics; geopolitics.

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