Hugo Chavez: Oil, Politics, and the Challenge to the U.S.

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		Hugo Chavez: Oil, Politics, and the Challenge to the U.S.
		Hugo Chavez: Oil, Politics, and the Challenge to the U.S.

基本信息·出版社：Palgrave Macmillan
·页码：272 页
·出版日期：2007年08月
·ISBN：1403984093
·条形码：9781403984098
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：乌戈·查韦斯: 石油、政治与美国面临的挑战

内容简介 This is the riveting and frightening story of ambitious, tempestuous and avowed anti-American Hugo Chávez, who is making waves through South America and being widely compared to Fidel Castro. Ex-paratrooper, outspoken socialist, and brash personality, Chávez is known for his stance against big business, fearless threats to the Bush administration, social reforms that have violently polarized his country, and claims that he will soon unite South America. As gas prices rise to unprecedented highs, Venezuela's importance surges as the fifth largest oil exporter in the world. Nikolas Kozloff's access to top advisors, members of the opposition, and leaders of Chávez's own political movement allow him to present a comprehensive portrait of Chávez as a president moving to the center of the global stage. Includes a new afterword by the author, with insights into Chávez's reelection and U.S.-Venuzuelan relations.
作者简介 Nikolas Kozloff writes regularly on Venezuelan political affairs as a Senior Research Fellow for the Council on Hemispheric Affairs in Washington, D.C.  He received his Ph.D. in Latin American History from Oxford University. He lives in New York.
编辑推荐 From Publishers Weekly
Hugo Chavez has put Latin America back on the U.S. radar with his outspoken attacks on American imperialism and his leadership in forming economic ties among Latin American nations outside U.S. influence. To many in the southern hemisphere, he represents a welcome alternative to the U.S., whose efforts to heal the region's economic woes through the World Bank and the IMF have largely failed. In the northern hemisphere, he is often seen as a threat to free-trade agreements and democracy in the Americas. Kozloff, a senior research fellow for the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, tries to neutralize the latter image as he recounts recent Venezuelan history and analyzes Chavez's rise to power. Paying equal attention to Chavez as a man and as a political phenomenon, he inserts slow-moving anecdotes among dense historical details, making for an uneven read. Kozloff's use of sources like the Nation, the New Left Review and the International Socialist Review, as well as his participation in the antiglobalization movement, also reveal a leftist bias toward Chavez. He offers little criticism of Chavez's policies or the nondemocratic means—a 1992 failed coup—through which he first garnered public favor, before winning office in a 1999 election and 2002 reelection. But while this bias might make for some one-sided storytelling at times, it also makes for a thoughtful, well-researched alternative to the majority of information available on Chavez in the English-speaking world. (Sept. 19)
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Review
"A thoughtful, well-researched alternative to the majority of information available on Cha vez in the English-speaking world."--"Publishers Weekly""A reasoned, historical presentation of Cha vez's rise to power and the social context which produced him."--"Political Affairs"

Review
"A thoughtful, well-researched alternative to the majority of information available on Chávez in the English-speaking world."--Publishers Weekly"A reasoned, historical presentation of Chávez's rise to power and the social context which produced him."--Political Affairs

Product Description
Audacious, provocative, and bombastic, few world politicians are as colorful as Hugo Chávez, now making international news for his plans to nationalize U.S. owned businesses and his bold opposition to Washington's economic and trade policies.  As Venezuela gains importance as the fifth largest oil exporter in the world, this firebrand leader is quickly moving to the public spotlight by uniting much of South America against the Bush administration and wielding oil as a "geopolitical weapon." To create this rich and objective portrait, Nikolas Kozloff--one of the few American journalists who has spent years in the Andean region--has profiled Chávez's  top advisors, leaders of his movement, and other key figures in both Venezuela and the U.S. The result is a timely, exhaustive analysis of Chávez as a political leader, and a nuanced examination of the president moving to the center of the global stage. Includes a new afterword by the author, with insights into Chávez's reelection in relation to wider hemispheric politics.

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