Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuelan Conflict

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This paper discusses the importance of fishing water regions for the nations of Trinidad and Tobago and why they find the use of these regions by Venezuela as an infringement of international law. It discusses the history of this conflict and the internal political and economic situation of each country which has lead to this conflict.

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"Both Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago are relatively poor countries (or at least countries where the majority of the people are poor) and this tends to exacerbate their disputes over fishing rights. Venezuela, both larger and more economically powerful (a "semi-peripheral" nation) , tends to have an advantage over Trinidad and Tobago, a "peripheral" nation, as explained in the model below. American economist Immanuel Wallerstein has argued in many of his writings that the best way to understand the relationship amongst the First, Second and Third Worlds (and possibly a Fourth World consisting of countries that have recently cast off colonial status) is to consider all of the world's nations as being a part of a single economic system. This system " which is political as well as economic " is highly complex and can only be understood if it is seen as a highly interdependent world system. Wallerstein argued that this world system had its origins in the rise of modern capitalism in the 17th century (McMichael, 2000, p. 669)."

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