Friendly Tyrants

Friendly Tyrants
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 547
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ISBN-10 : 9781349216765
ISBN-13 : 1349216763
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Book Synopsis Friendly Tyrants by : Adam Garfinkle

Download or read book Friendly Tyrants written by Adam Garfinkle and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-10-31 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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