While servant leadership has become a widely adopted leadership style by many greatleaders throughout history, there is limited empirical evidence to support the trueorganizational relationship between servant leader factors and cultural intelligence. Theresearch was conducted u…
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Two geopolitically important and petroleum-rich countries are Iran and Venezuela. The modern history of these two countries has been greatly influenced by the fact that both countries lie on top of large petroleum reserves. Each country experienced political coups d'état that we…
This work examines the political and economic development of an oil workers community in Maracaibo, Venezuela from the period of initial exploitation in the Maracaibo basin through the military coup in 1948, which shattered all forms of political and social development within th…
While the potential efficiency gains to be realized through water utility privatization have been extolled, the impacts of such programs on different categories of service users are not well understood or closely scrutinized in the literature. Along with efficiency, do privatiza…
The project focuses on the interrelationship between both government and dissident leaders' “micromotives” and the regime's/group's “macrobehavior” (Schelling 1978). That is, the author explains how dissident and government leaders' individual motives transpire into events such …
Canaima National Park and its Gran Sabana ecosystem is experiencing significant environmental change. Forest depletion and savannization are the major environmental threats to the integrity of the park. This has significant consequences such as the deterioration of the hydroelec…
Venezuela began a process of decentralization in the late 1980s as part of a major period of institutional reform designed to restore legitimacy to the discredited political system of the time. The first efforts towards this end did not complete the process of decentralizing pol…
This thesis explores the relations between democracy and decentralization in Venezuela during the period from 1989 to 2000. In particular it explores the emergence of political decentralization as the spatial distribution of power and its links with the process of democratizatio…
As the price of oil has risen, the effect of resource wealth on countries around the world has become increasingly important. Previous studies have shown that countries dependent on oil exports tend to be less democratic and more prone to civil unrest, but have not clarified wha…
Since the 1990s, the world has witnessed the emergence of globalization. It became a hot debate topic for scholars in the field. The theory behind this dissertation is derived from thinking critically about statism and the concept of political globalization--it fundamentally ste…
The main objectives of this research focus on the testing of selected model for the development of resource frontier regions; to point out the principal implications of the different development strategies on the socio-economic conditions in the subject areas; and to propose a m…
This research intended to understand regime juxtaposition within the third wave of autocratization (1990– ) or, more specifically, to explain why the survival of democracy is achieved in some regions and not in others, at the same time that central governments seek to expand the…
This dissertation examines the explosion of the cultural field in Venezuela during the 1970s oil boom through the lens of nature-society relations. I argue that cultural production was an agent of state-led ecological transformation and, at the same time, a space where artists a…
One of the most pressing policy challenges for the new Biden administration is how to address Venezuela. Between the ongoing humanitarian crisis and the complexities surrounding the Maduro regime, immediate action is required. However, President Biden must be cautious as to not …
I argue that modern European philosophy served Simón Bolívar as a theoretical science positing a set of general principles for politics and the human soul. These principles were in turn translated into practical projects of two kinds. One sought the liberal ends of vanquishing d…