Friendly Tyrants: An American Dilemma

Garfinkle, Adam; Pipes, Daniel

What do the South Vietnamese government, the Shah and Ferdinand Marcos have in common? All were allied to the United States; all defied democratic and liberal norms; and all three fell in a blaze, creating problems for the United States. These three cases - and another eighteen more - are the subject of Friendly Tyrants, the first study ever to survey the contentious, persistent problem of U.S. government relations with pro-American authoritarian rulers.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1991-10-31

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333543757

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-21676-5

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 542