Karpovich, O.G. Some specific features of the current foreign political relations between the USA and Venezuela.

Abstract: The modern specificities of the foreign political relations of the global leaders (such as the USA) and the rest of the world are defined by the growing value of the former “Third World” states, wishing to play an independent role in the international arena. These category of states includes the young states in Africa, Asia and Latin America, which quite recently were the colonies of the leading European states. Venezuela, being at the peak of its passionarity and having the right to claim the role of the leader of the Latin American world, attracts most of the global attention today. While being behind their former metropolitan countries in economic and social development, these states have always tried to get outside the narrow limits, imposed on them by the Great Powers, denying the Third World countries the full amount of rights of participants of international relations. While purposefully limiting the participation of the young post-colonial states in the global political process and the peacebuilding, the Great States (and first of all, the USA) gave them the role of the political periphery, regional states (with the immature systems of political government institutions), and that of the raw-material appendages to the economies of the industrially developed states.

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