U.S.-Venezuela relations since the 1990s
Subtitle: friends-enemies, for now
By: Javier Corrales and Carlos Romero
Contributors: Romero, Carlos A.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780415895248; 9780415895255; 9780203800515
Subjects: Politics and government; Foreign economic relations; Foreign relations
Other titles: United States-Venezuela relations since the 1990s
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part I. U.S.-Venezuela relations and IR theory; title: Part II. Neorealism, soft balancing, and mid-level security threats: Venezuela's new foreign policy through the prism of neorealism; U.S. responses; title: Part III. Beyond neorealism: economics, ideas, and institutions: oil's double role and the concept of friends/enemies; the "talk softly, sanction softly" policy; title: Part IV. Regime type and other domestic sources of foreign policy: regime type and Venezuela: president and soldiers; regime type and US policy toward Venezuela: president and Congress; title: Part V. Overreaching and outreaching: from ALBA to Damascus: tiny allies, big pariahs and identity construction; conclusion: friends-enemies, for now.