Defiant Dictatorships
Why did some Communist and Middle-Eastern dictatorships, those in China, Vietnam, North Korea, Cuba, Syria, Iraq, Libya and Iran, remained defiantly stable during the onset of a democratic age in the 1980s and early 1990s? The book offers an explanation based upon external relations - the regimes�...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
Palgrave Macmillan UK
1997, 1997
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Why did some Communist and Middle-Eastern dictatorships, those in China, Vietnam, North Korea, Cuba, Syria, Iraq, Libya and Iran, remained defiantly stable during the onset of a democratic age in the 1980s and early 1990s? The book offers an explanation based upon external relations - the regimes' defiance of external military or political foes - and then searches for alternative or supplementary explanations by examining the changes that occurred in these dictatorships' political structures, ideologies and economic policies during 1980-94 |
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| Physical Description: | V, 223 p online resource |
| ISBN: | 9780230376380 |