6 On February 6, 2024, the Primakov Center participated in a video conference of the Center for Financial Studies of the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the topic “Territorial Dispute Between Venezuela and Guyana: External and Internal Political Projection.” In the current global order, any contradictions and territorial disputes between states have the potential to escalate into armed mechanisms. This is not only characteristic of the situation in Europe or the East, but also on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. In the fall of 2023, there was a major escalation of tensions between the Bolivarian …