The Dictator Dilemma: The United States and Paraguay in the Cold War

by Kirk Tyvela

The Dictator Dilemma tells the story of US bilateral relations with the Alfredo Stroessner dictatorship (1954-1989). Tyvela focuses on how and why that diplomatic relationship changed during the Cold War from cooperation, based on mutual opposition to communism, to conflict, based on clashing expectations concerning democratic reforms and human rights. The policy debates by officials in Washington and in Asunci n brought out a tension that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822965739
• ISBN13: 9780822965732
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"