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

Brooker, P.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1997-09-30

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349393985

DOI: 10.1057/9780230376380

Dimensions: 203cm x127cm

Pages: 223