A importância da América Latina para a recentralização asiática no sistema-mundo

Abstract

The present article seeks to delineate and debate the hypothesis of the Latin American importance for the Asian recentralization – or reorientalization – in the world-system. From the longue durée (the long term theory), it seeks to present the duality of a millenary world-system centered on Asia and the rise of an European world-system in the sixteenth century. Thus, the Asian peripherization before the apogee of the European capitalist world-system from the Industrial Revolution begins to be reversed in the late twentieth century, whose gravitational axis is rescentralized to Southeast Asia, influenced by China. In the context of the twentieth first century, the importance of Latin America in this process is present, evidenced by the growing Chinese presence in political, economic and commercial relations with Latin American countries