Os recursos energéticos, especialmente o petróleo, têm assumido um crescente papel estratégico no sistema internacional, o que é de suma importância para o atual momento de transição sistêmica internacional. A Venezuela assume, nesse cenário, um lugar de destaque, pois se configura como um dos maiores produtores e exportadores mundiais de petróleo, além de estar passando por profundas alterações em suas estruturas de Estado. Procuramos analisar, ao longo do trabalho, de que maneira a Venezuela se insere neste contexto. Nesse sentido, a análise se dará nos elementos condicionantes da atual transição sistêmica e nos movimentos executados pelo governo Chávez com vistas ao enfrentamento de um cenário cada vez mais complexo, principalmente depois do lançamento e dos desdobramentos internacionais da nova política energética dos Estados Unidos, iniciada em 2001. O período escolhido para análise localiza-se entre os anos 1999 e 2005. Este período reflete, no plano externo, mudanças significativas nos arranjos do sistema internacional, com uma ativa atuação do governo venezuelano e, no plano interno, o início e a consolidação das reformas em setores estratégicos ligados à produção de recursos energéticos. Especial atenção é dada para o papel desempenhado pelo petróleo nos movimentos realizados pelo novo governo, pois se constata que o principal elemento garantidor da execução de uma política externa intensa e ativa e uma política interna constituída de profundas reformas estruturais, nesse caso, é a utilização do petróleo externamente, como recurso de poder e, internamente, como fonte de legitimidade. / Energetic resources, especially oil, have increasingly been playing a strategic role in the international system, what is of vital importance for the present moment of international systemic transition. In such a scenario, Venezuela occupies an outstanding position, for it is one of the planet’s largest producers and exporters of oil. Besides, the country is going through deep changes in its statal structures. We try to analyze how Venezuela fits into this context. We will analyze the conditioning elements of the current systemic transition and also the measures taken by the Chávez government to tackle an increasingly complex scenario, especially after the consequences on an international level, of the new American energetic policy launched in 2001. We will study the period between 1999 and 2005. On the external level, this period reflects meaningful changes in the international system arrangement with an active performance by the Venezuelan government. On the internal level, the beginning and the consolidation of reforms in strategic sectors connected with the production of energetic resources. We pay special attention to the role played by oil in the actions performed by the new government, for it can be noticed that its use is the key element that guarantees the possibility for an intense and active external policy as well as an internal policy composed of deep structural reforms. The role of oil is so vital because it is used internationally as a source of power and domestically as a way of legitimation.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:54:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Nabupolasar Alves Feitosa.pdf: 2444286 bytes, checksum: 64741c3bf7f88964eef9b1af8d5af923 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-28 / The present work, entitled The construction of the chavista State: the bolivarian influence, was done with the aim of analysing the process by which the political ideas produced in the past by Simón Bolívar were recovered and instrumentalized by Hugo Chávez under new historical circumstances. With the use of Simón Bolívar s historical figure as justification for his acts, Hugo Chávez s governing style varied in such a manner that it was possible to identify three periods during the 14 years as leader of the Venezuelan State. In each of theses periods, the way Chávez used the State to relate himself with society changed, and eventually He constructed what is called here the chavista State. The leading hypothesis in this work asserts that Chávez, using Bolívar as justification, took a political track in a growing dispute that ended up by creating a strong State, capitalist, socially oriented, with great concentration of Power in Hugo Chávez s hands, and with persecution against political adversaries or anyone that could oppose the chavista power project. To go through this hypothesis, a qualitative research was done, based also on many official data about the economic and social situation in Venezuela, besides a broad bibliographical research. The thesis holds its fundaments in Karl Marx's The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, in the understanding of bonapartism, which characterizes the chavista way of acting, and Nico poulantzas State, Power, Socialism, that offers a theory about the substitution of the power block as a result of the struggles between the class fractions. This way, with the study of Simón Bolívar s political thinking and Hugo Chávez s political formation and his acts as president of the Republic, it became clear that in Venezuela there was no revolution, for the capitalist characteristics remain in the Venezuelan economy, and the taking of the State by the working class did not occur, but only an exchange of the power block, with the military predominance as a hegemonic class. As a result of Hugo Chávez s phisical disappearence, the decadence of the chavista State started, with a tendency to extinction, due to the absence of Chávez s charisma, his ability to reconcile inner interests inside the chavista movement, and because of the economic crisis which devastates the country / O presente trabalho, intitulado A construção do Estado chavista: a influência bolivariana, foi realizado com o objetivo de analisar o processo pelo qual as idéias políticas produzidas no passado por Simón Bolívar foram recuperadas e instrumentalizadas por Hugo Chávez sob novas circunstâncias históricas. Com o uso da figura histórica de Simón Bolívar como justificativa para suas ações, o estilo de governar de Hugo Chávez variou de tal maneira que foi possível identificar três períodos distintos durante os 14 anos em que esteve à frente do Estado venezuelano. Em cada um desses períodos, a forma como Chávez usava o Estado para se relacionar com a sociedade ia mudando, até que finalmente construíu o que se denomina aqui de Estado chavista. A hipótese norteadora desse trabalho sustenta que Chávez, utilizando-se de Bolívar como justificativa, caminhou politicamente num crescente de disputa política que culminou em um Estado forte, capitalista, de orientação social, com grande concentração de poder na pessoa de Hugo Chávez, e com perseguição a adversários políticos ou qualquer um que se opusesse ao projeto chavista de poder. Para responder a essa hipótese, foi feita uma pesquisa qualitativa, sustentada também por muitos dados oficiais sobre a situação da sociedade e da economia venezuelanas, além de uma ampla pesquisa bibliográfica. A tese teve como base o 18 Brumário de Luís Bonaparte, de Karl Marx, na compreensão do bonapartismo, que caracteriza o modo de agir chavista, e a obra O Estado, O Poder, O Socialismo, de Nicos Poulantzas, que teoriza a respeito da substituição do bloco no poder como resultado das lutas entre as frações de classe. Dessa forma, com o estudo do pensamento político de Simón Bolívar e da formação ideológica de Hugo Chávez, somados seus aos atos enquanto Presidente da República, ficou patente que na Venezuela não houve revolução, pois permaneceram os traços capitalistas da economia venezuelana, e não ocorreu a tomada do Estado pela classe trabalhadora, tendo existido apenas a mudança do bloco no poder, com predominância dos militares como classe hegemônica. Com o desaparecimento físico de Hugo Chávez, iniciou-se a decadência do Estado chavista, com tendência ao desaparecimento em virtude da ausência do carisma de Chávez, da sua habilidade de conciliar interesses internos ao chavismo, e em razão da crise econômica que assola o país

This thesis explores the route to power of Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez and the methods by which he has remained in power throughout his presidency. Also, it explores the potential for Chávez to lose power, given the current economic and political situation in Venezuela. The importance of the oil industry, Chávez's suppression of the opposition and control of the media, and constitutional changes and reforms are all discussed as keys to Chávez's continuance in power.

Os recursos energéticos, especialmente o petróleo, têm assumido um crescente papel estratégico no sistema internacional, o que é de suma importância para o atual momento de transição sistêmica internacional. A Venezuela assume, nesse cenário, um lugar de destaque, pois se configura como um dos maiores produtores e exportadores mundiais de petróleo, além de estar passando por profundas alterações em suas estruturas de Estado. Procuramos analisar, ao longo do trabalho, de que maneira a Venezuela se insere neste contexto. Nesse sentido, a análise se dará nos elementos condicionantes da atual transição sistêmica e nos movimentos executados pelo governo Chávez com vistas ao enfrentamento de um cenário cada vez mais complexo, principalmente depois do lançamento e dos desdobramentos internacionais da nova política energética dos Estados Unidos, iniciada em 2001. O período escolhido para análise localiza-se entre os anos 1999 e 2005. Este período reflete, no plano externo, mudanças significativas nos arranjos do sistema internacional, com uma ativa atuação do governo venezuelano e, no plano interno, o início e a consolidação das reformas em setores estratégicos ligados à produção de recursos energéticos. Especial atenção é dada para o papel desempenhado pelo petróleo nos movimentos realizados pelo novo governo, pois se constata que o principal elemento garantidor da execução de uma política externa intensa e ativa e uma política interna constituída de profundas reformas estruturais, nesse caso, é a utilização do petróleo externamente, como recurso de poder e, internamente, como fonte de legitimidade. / Energetic resources, especially oil, have increasingly been playing a strategic role in the international system, what is of vital importance for the present moment of international systemic transition. In such a scenario, Venezuela occupies an outstanding position, for it is one of the planet’s largest producers and exporters of oil. Besides, the country is going through deep changes in its statal structures. We try to analyze how Venezuela fits into this context. We will analyze the conditioning elements of the current systemic transition and also the measures taken by the Chávez government to tackle an increasingly complex scenario, especially after the consequences on an international level, of the new American energetic policy launched in 2001. We will study the period between 1999 and 2005. On the external level, this period reflects meaningful changes in the international system arrangement with an active performance by the Venezuelan government. On the internal level, the beginning and the consolidation of reforms in strategic sectors connected with the production of energetic resources. We pay special attention to the role played by oil in the actions performed by the new government, for it can be noticed that its use is the key element that guarantees the possibility for an intense and active external policy as well as an internal policy composed of deep structural reforms. The role of oil is so vital because it is used internationally as a source of power and domestically as a way of legitimation.

Os recursos energéticos, especialmente o petróleo, têm assumido um crescente papel estratégico no sistema internacional, o que é de suma importância para o atual momento de transição sistêmica internacional. A Venezuela assume, nesse cenário, um lugar de destaque, pois se configura como um dos maiores produtores e exportadores mundiais de petróleo, além de estar passando por profundas alterações em suas estruturas de Estado. Procuramos analisar, ao longo do trabalho, de que maneira a Venezuela se insere neste contexto. Nesse sentido, a análise se dará nos elementos condicionantes da atual transição sistêmica e nos movimentos executados pelo governo Chávez com vistas ao enfrentamento de um cenário cada vez mais complexo, principalmente depois do lançamento e dos desdobramentos internacionais da nova política energética dos Estados Unidos, iniciada em 2001. O período escolhido para análise localiza-se entre os anos 1999 e 2005. Este período reflete, no plano externo, mudanças significativas nos arranjos do sistema internacional, com uma ativa atuação do governo venezuelano e, no plano interno, o início e a consolidação das reformas em setores estratégicos ligados à produção de recursos energéticos. Especial atenção é dada para o papel desempenhado pelo petróleo nos movimentos realizados pelo novo governo, pois se constata que o principal elemento garantidor da execução de uma política externa intensa e ativa e uma política interna constituída de profundas reformas estruturais, nesse caso, é a utilização do petróleo externamente, como recurso de poder e, internamente, como fonte de legitimidade. / Energetic resources, especially oil, have increasingly been playing a strategic role in the international system, what is of vital importance for the present moment of international systemic transition. In such a scenario, Venezuela occupies an outstanding position, for it is one of the planet’s largest producers and exporters of oil. Besides, the country is going through deep changes in its statal structures. We try to analyze how Venezuela fits into this context. We will analyze the conditioning elements of the current systemic transition and also the measures taken by the Chávez government to tackle an increasingly complex scenario, especially after the consequences on an international level, of the new American energetic policy launched in 2001. We will study the period between 1999 and 2005. On the external level, this period reflects meaningful changes in the international system arrangement with an active performance by the Venezuelan government. On the internal level, the beginning and the consolidation of reforms in strategic sectors connected with the production of energetic resources. We pay special attention to the role played by oil in the actions performed by the new government, for it can be noticed that its use is the key element that guarantees the possibility for an intense and active external policy as well as an internal policy composed of deep structural reforms. The role of oil is so vital because it is used internationally as a source of power and domestically as a way of legitimation.

The aim of the study is to examine how the executive leadership and the decision-making process are shaped by the leadership environment in a transition democracy as Venezuela. The questions I intend to answer are: What kind of leadership environment surrounds the leadership and what kind of consequences does it have on the leadership and the decision-making process in Venezuela? To answer my questions I will use the literature: Political Leadership in Liberal Democracies (Elgie, Robert 1995, London: Macmillian), together with the method “The cultural determinist school of history” by Tomas Spencer, later reproduced by Kellerman. The leadership environment provides unique opportunities for a leader to gain control over the decision-making process. Institutional structures and the needs of the society are major parts in determining how the political leadership is exercised. In Venezuela, charismatic President Hugo Chávez is head of the executive branch. The President enjoys great executive power that has diminished the role of the legislature. The policy of a more governmental controlled economy and direct democracy, based on populism has led to a more polarized society. Both historical and socio cultural failures have benefited the presidency. The “partyarchy” is abolished and has been replaced by a personalized policy-making process. The tendency is a leadership environment with a consolidation of the extended power within the executive, and a decision-making process outside the traditional institutional structures that favours the executive.

Abstract Essay in political science, C-level, by Julia Leonsson, spring semester 2007 Tutor: Susan Marton Freedom – The political philosophy of our time? An analysis of the ideas of the international debate about Chávez socialistic politic Since more than 2000 years there has been an ongoing discussion about whether state interference is a good thing or not. Most international organisations on the international political arena are today founded on neoliberal values, and it has developed in to the hegemonic ideology of the world. The socialistic politics of the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez is thereby a somewhat unusual strategy. The purpose of this essay is to examine to what extent the international debate about Chávez socialistic politic can be understood through a neoliberal perspective. My main research question is: Is the international discussion about Chávez socialistic politic imprinted by neoliberal values? The methodological approach is a qualitative text analysis and by using an analyse chart, bases on three dimensions, it is possible to analyse the material. The dimensions, which also was the basis of my specified research questions is: the state, the individual and the economy. The theoretical foundation of the essay is the neoliberal ideology and my material consists of newspaper articles from six different newspapers. I discovered that the topic and dimension most discussed in the articles was the economy. Based on my study the conclusion is that the international debate about Chávez socialistic politic to a large extent can be understood through a neoliberal perspective.

Cette thèse a pour objet les corrélations existant entre le leadership charismatique populiste et la politique extérieure vénézuélienne alors que, traditionnellement, ces deux objets sont considérés indépendamment l’un de l’autre. L’étude géo-historique de la construction de l’État-Nation vénézuélien aux XIXe et début du XXe siècles explique celle d’une « identité de corps ». L’État précède la Nation qui se construit par le conflit externe et la reconnaissance mutuelle, à la faveur de leaderships politiques dominants (personnalistes et/ou autoritaires) et, pour surmonter le traumatisme suscité par ces conflits et l’échec du projet supranational réunificateur (Grande Colombie), de représentations politiques mythifiantes du peuple et du pouvoir. Ce processus présage le façonnage d’une matrice populiste du politique ayant vocation à compléter cette identité en prolongeant l’interpellation du peuple, tant à l’intérieur qu’à l’extérieur. Ce travail se focalise alors sur les mécanismes de construction et de routinisation du leadership charismatique populiste d’Hugo Chávez Frías et étudie les canaux de diffusion et de globalisation de ce type de leadership qui sont aussi ceux de la diplomatie multiple « bolivarienne ». Ainsi, le peuple n’est plus seulement un groupement de nationaux vénézuéliens mais une communauté « bolivarienne » plus élargie. Le populisme n’est plus envisagé comme un moment ni comme s’exprimant exclusivement sur le territoire national, mais comme un système global qui alimente autant qu’il se nourrit de l’autre et de l’extérieur. La politique extérieure peut alors être analysée sous l’angle d’une politique transnationalisée. / This thesis aims to show evidence for existing correlations between populist charismatic leadership and the Venezuelan foreign policy, whilst these two topics are traditionally considered independently from each other. The geo-historical study of the construction of the Venezuelan nation state in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries explains its « corporate identity ». The state precedes the nation that builds up from external conflict and mutual recognition, for dominant political leadership reasons (personalistic and / or authoritarian), and to overcome the trauma caused by the conflict and the failure of the unifying supranational project (Gran Colombia) by mythifying political representations of the people and power. This process suggests the shaping of a populist political matrix aiming to complete this identity by prolonging the appeal to the people, both inside and outside the country. The work then focuses on mechanisms aiming at building and routinizing Hugo Chávez Frías’s charismatic and populist leadership. It also studies the broadcasting channels and the globalization of this type of leadership which are similar to the « Bolivarian » multiple diplomacy. Thus, the people are no longer just a group of Venezuelan nationals but a much wider « Bolivarian » community. Populism is no longer conceived as a moment nor considered as expressing itself exclusively within the country, but as a global system that feeds as much as it is fed from others and from the outside. Foreign policy can thus be analyzed in terms of a transnationalized policy.

Esta tesis se propone analizar la cobertura de la señal televisiva CNN en Español sobre las elecciones presidenciales de Venezuela llevadas a cabo el 3 de diciembre de 2006. Su objetivo es dar cuenta de la intencionalidad editorial del medio, es decir, su discurso de clase presentado como objetivo e imparcial. Esta investigación revisará la historia reciente de Venezuela; la conformación corporativa, así como el comportamiento histórico de CNN en Español; y realizará un análisis cuantitativo y cualitativo de la cobertura que la señal realizó sobre las elecciones presidenciales en Venezuela. La intención es cruzar los datos para observar la parcialidad del medio y poder contextualizarla. De esta forma, esta tesis representa un observatorio de medios destinado a analizar el discurso de clase de CNN en Español y su lugar dentro de la lucha por el poder en Venezuela / Programa de investigación: Comunicación y Política

委內瑞拉為世界第五大的石油輸出國，且同為石油輸出國家組織的創始會員國之一。石油是委內瑞拉最為重要的產業與經濟活動，而委內瑞拉因石油而富，亦因石油而貧，委內瑞拉所依賴的石油一直以來猶如兩面刃般深刻的影響委內瑞拉的政治、經濟與社會。 　　1992年政變失敗的陸軍中校查維茲打著激烈改革的口號，於1998年贏得委內瑞拉總統大選，終結支配委內瑞拉政治長達50年的「協定民主」，為委內瑞拉的歷史打開了新的一頁。對於查維茲而言，委內瑞拉的石油不但是國家主權獨立的象徵，同時亦應用於國際政治中重要的地緣政治武器。因此，查維茲上台後，便積極展開石油改革計畫，強化對國內石油產業的控制權，重整委內瑞拉國營石油公司，並利用石油收入進行社會發展計畫。此外，配合近年來國際油價的高漲，查維茲在區域與國際政治舞台上，運用委內瑞拉豐富的石油蘊藏與龐大的石油收入，進行合縱連橫，攏絡盟友並且試圖削弱美國的影響力。 　　本研究採用K. J. Holsti所提出的個人、國家、體系與全球四個分析層次作為主要分析架構，以求對於查維茲政權能源政策做出全面性的探討。此論文假設查維茲政權能源政策的發展，決策者為核心因素，藉由在個人層次上，透過決策者個人研究，以求對查維茲個人政治理念有通盤的了解，並探討如何影響委內瑞拉能源政策之發展。再者，選取在國內、體系中對委內瑞拉能源政策影響較深的因素，解釋查維茲政權在這些因素影響下，產生何種政策輸出？最後，探討近年來全球能源環境的變遷與重要的發展趨勢，作為影響查維茲政權能源政策的重要中介因素，解釋全球能源環境的變化與發展對查維茲能源政策有何影響？ / Venezuela is the fifth-largest oil exporter in the world, also, one of the funding members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. In Venezuela, most industries and economic activities are dominated by Petroleum sector, a “double edged sword” which brings both positive and negative effects, and deeply influences the political, economic and social conditions in Venezuela. In 1998, the former lieutenant colonel, Hugo Chávez, who had organized an unsuccessful coup in 1992, seized the power as president in the election with the claim of “radical reformation”. The result in 1998 presidential election terminated the nearly fifty-year long “pacted democracy” and create a unprecendented prospect on Venezuela’s history. To Chávez, the oil is not only the symbol of independence of national sovereignty, but also a useful geopolitical weapon in the field of international politics. Therefore, Chávez began his oil reformation: strengthen the state control to the oil industry, reorganize the national oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela, SA, PDVSA, and use the income to facilitate the social policy. Moreover, due to the reason of oil price surging in recent years, the abundant oil reserve and its’ enormous output value enable Chavez to expand his power base and also to put his intention of striking the influence of United State in both regional and international stage to practice. This study adopts K. J. Holsti’s four levels of analysis – individual, state, system and global, as the analytic framework to this research. In this study, the individual level is assumed as the core factor of the energy policy development under the Chávez regime. Chavez’s political ideas and how it influences Venezuela’s energy policy would be examined through the study of his leadership. Furthermore, taking important factors influencing energy policy in both domestic and international level into account, what policies output related to the above factors had Chavez made? Last but not the least, a discussion of global energy environment change in recent years would be made for explaining how it acts as the intermediary factors which influence the energy policy of Chávez regime.