In the early 20th century, coal was replaced with petroleum, which turned into new source of world energy, and suddenly became a strategic resource with considerable influence at the international level. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is the major oil and gas actor in the world and its decisions about raw materials have a worldwide influence. It is the fifth-largest exporter and eighth oil producer in the world. Venezuela owns the largest hydrocarbon reserves in the Western Hemisphere, specifically 172 trillion barrels of oil and 5.1 trillion meters cubic of natural gas. Hugo Chavez's government has used the situation and the issue of depletion of world oil reserves and through ownership of high oil reserves established diplomatic relations with a wide range of countries. Among those who were not in alliances should be mentioned countries such as China and Cuba or members of OPEC. He also used the oil to support the integration of Latin American and Caribbean States and created the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our America. The structure of the thesis is designed to provide analysis of the foreign policy of Venezuela, and point to the importance of oil in international trade.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:194511 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Creators | Tkáčová, Petra |
| Contributors | Štěrbová, Ludmila, Zamykalová, Miroslava |
| Publisher | Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Slovak |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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