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Since coming to power in 1999, President Hugo Chavez has used the windfall of high oil prices to remake Venezuela internally along the model of twenty-first-century socialism and, even more audaciously, to rewrite global relations by directly challenging U.S. hegemony. The dramatic ascendency of the country in hemispheric and global international relations over the past decade is the subject of Venezuela’s Petro-Diplomacy.

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Latin American specialists will want to add it to their collection as will students of comparative foreign policies. International relations scholars, especially those interested in resource issues, will find useful material and sources here for their own research. --International Social Science Review Demonstrates the broad reach of Venezuela's foreign policy and the considerable interest it has generated, as well as its impact on diverse sectors in Venezuela and elsewhere. --Journal of Latin American Studies

Demonstrates the broad reach of Venezuela s foreign policy and the considerable interest it has generated, as well as its impact on diverse sectors in Venezuela and elsewhere. Journal of Latin American Studies

Demonstrates the broad reach of Venezuela's foreign policy and the considerable interest it has generated, as well as its impact on diverse sectors in Venezuela and elsewhere. -- Journal of Latin American Studies

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Ralph S. Clem is emeritus professor of geography and international relations at Florida International University, USA. Anthony P. Maingot is professor emeritus of sociology and anthropology at Florida International University, USA.

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