U.S.-Venezuela relations since the 1990s coping with mid-level security threats / Javier Corrales and Carlos Romero.

Variant title United States-Venezuela relations since the 1990s
Contents Part I. U.S.-Venezuela relations and IR theory -- Part II. Neorealism, soft balancing, and mid-level security threats: Venezuela's new foreign policy through the prism of neorealism; U.S. responses -- Part III. Beyond neorealism: economics, ideas, and institutions: oil's double role and the concept of friends/enemies; the "talk softly, sanction softly" policy -- 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 -- Part V. Overreaching and outreaching: from ALBA to Damascus: tiny allies, big pariahs and identity construction; conclusion: friends-enemies, for now.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2012011683
ISBN9780415895248 (hbk.)
ISBN9780415895255 (pbk.)
ISBN9780203800515 (ebk.)