Strategi Perlawanan Venezuela dalam Menghadapi Tekanan Amerika Serikat melalui ALBA Tahun 2015-2017

External power pressure balance of fear bandwagoning regional supportive discourse power aggregation defection

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August 2, 2019

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Economic and humanitarian crisis that happened in Venezuela since 2014
has left Venezuela in international pressure, especially from the United
States. United States pressure make Venezuela position's isolated in Latin
America region also in international. In order facing United States
pressure, Venezuela takes advantage of its position in ALBA as a regional
power. As ALBA member countries still showing strong support towards
Venezuela despite Venezuela is hit by crisis allegedly due to the failure
of socialist economic system on Hugo Chavez's era. This research use
hegemony cooperative theory as analysis instrument which is result three
strategies by Venezuela: (1) balancing reduction strategy by increase
balance of fear towards United States; (2) increasing bandwagoning
strategy towards ALBA member countries to maintain the exsistence of
regional supportive discourse; (3) aggregation power strategy towards
ALBA member countries to prevention defection in the region.