Venezuela - Dimensions of the Crisis

The volume addresses a wider audience, such as scholars on Latin American and especially Venezuelan Politics, International Relations, as well as an interested public, including journalists and politicians.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Venezuela - Dimensions of the Crisis.- Part I. History and Theory.- Chapter 2. Can an Evolutionary Order be schizophrenic? Reading Venezuelan politics from an institutionalist perspective.- Chapter 3. Ideological aspects of Venezuela's current divide.- Chapter 4. Venezuela between Democracy and Autocracy: History and Politics in the 20th and 21st centuries.- Part II. Domestic Dimensions of The Crisis: Actors, Parties and Problems.- Chapter 5. Multiple Crises of the Venezuelan Party System.- Chapter 6. Discretionality and Disarticulation in the Venezuelan Public Administration.- Chapter 7. The Military Factor.- Part III. International and Regional Dimensions of the Crisis.- Chapter 8. The Role of the EU in the Venezuelan conflict: Why did democracy promotion fail?.- Chapter 9. From Monroe to Bolívar and back? US-Venezuela Relations.- Chapter 10. Venezuela, Cuba and United States: Power and Geopolitics in the Great Caribbean.- Chapter 11. Difficult but necessary: Venezuela-Colombia relations throughout time. A historical depiction of two specially connected neighbors.- Chapter 12. Conclusion: Dimensions of The Crisis and Future Prospects.