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

Abstract

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.