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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Main Author: Brooker, Paul
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 1997, 1997
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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