Policy Paper: US aggressions from Venezuela to Greenland

Fabricio Rodríguez has published a policy paper on US agressions from Venezuela to Greenland in the Virtual Encyclopaedia “Rewriting Peace and Conflict“ of the Postcolonial Hierarchies network. Drawing from his research in global political economy, energy studies, and coloniality, and his own standpoint as a Latin American political scientist, he engages with debates on energy, imperialism, and critical geopolitics.
 

"This text links two events – the United States’ military intervention in Venezuela and their explicit threats regarding Greenland – as expressions of a single historical pattern: normative selectivity and international impunity, which enable a world power such as the United States to project their imperial military force in order to effect political change in other sovereign states when strategic risks are at stake, particularly in relation to energy resources and critical minerals. From a Latin American perspective, these dynamics are hardly new. The vocabulary of imperialism, dependency and coloniality has constituted, for decades, an analytical and political repertoire through which to name processes frequently softened in institutional language as measures of stabilisation or security, undertaken in the name of “democracy.”" 

Rodríguez does not seek to offer definitive answers or forecasts, but rather argues that any meaningful understanding of the present must rest on a deeper understanding of the historical context. The purpose of the paper is to contribute to public policy discussions and informed reflection grounded in academic analysis, at a historical juncture marked by the erosion of international law, the increasing resort to military force, and the reconfiguration of global power.

The policy paper is part of the Policy Paper Series of the Postcolonial Hierarchies network. The English version (Translation: Carolina Orloff) is available on the Virtual Encyclopaedia website. It was originally published in Spanish. All policy papers are published in the interventions section of the Virtual Encyclopaedia.