Defiant Dictatorships: Communist and Middle-Eastern Dictatorships in a Democratic Age

By Paul Brooker

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349393983
• ISBN13: 9781349393985
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"