Security Developments on a Global Level: Venezuela
Humanities
You will be senior member of the National Security Council (NSC) who advises the president about security developments on a global level, and it is your job to decide whether American interests are involved and/or threatened as situations arise around the world.In this case, you are to write a five-page paper assessing the economic, military and humanitarian situations in Venezuela.Your paper will be numbered and divided into three sections in which you decide:
(1)If any national interests of the U.S. are involved, then what are they?If no interests are involved, then why not?
(2)Describe briefly how the Venezuelan economy is statist, and then answer whether the U.S. has a responsibility to protect (R2P) the people of Venezuela or intervene in any way?
(3) If action is called for, then what policy options are available to the U.S.?(See the following section).If no action is recommended, why not?
The national security advisor (NSA) has a full range of viable policy options available and coordinates those options to make certain that the prospects for success and failure have been identified for the president.
In your summary you must include factors such as: (1) should the U.S. intervene or not, and if so, what form of intervention do you recommend? and (2) In addition, if you do recommend intervention, then should it be unilateral or multilateral.
