Friendly Tyrants: An American Dilemma

✍ Scribed by Daniel Pipes, Adam Garfinkle (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 1991
Tongue: English
Leaves: 547
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Friendly Tyrants and American Interests....Pages 3-20
The First Friendly Tyrants....Pages 23-40
South Vietnam: Autopsy of a Compound Crisis....Pages 41-61
The Nadir of Greek Democracy....Pages 63-87
Why Turkey Is Not a Friendly Tyrant....Pages 91-108
The Collapse of the Somoza Regime....Pages 109-129
Too Little, Too Late: American Policy and the Shah of Iran....Pages 131-150
Argentina under the Junta, 1976–1982....Pages 153-176
Malign Neglect: U.S. Policy toward Haiti under the Duvaliers....Pages 177-200
Timely Daring: The United States and Ferdinand Marcos....Pages 201-219
Friendly Tyrants: Historical Reckoning....Pages 221-251
Front Matter....Pages 253-255
Reflections on the Friendly Tyrants Dilemma Today....Pages 257-262
Uncomfortable Allies: U.S. Relations with Pinochet’s Chile....Pages 265-284
Paraguay without Stroessner....Pages 285-306
Mexico: The Unraveling Of a Corporatist Regime?....Pages 307-327
South Korea under Military Rule: Friendly Tyrant?....Pages 331-351
Taiwan under the Kuomintang: America and the China Puzzle....Pages 353-377
Indonesia under Suharto: The Benefits of Aloofness....Pages 379-399
South Africa under Apartheid....Pages 403-420
Zaire under Mobutu: Consistencies and Contradictions of U.S. Policy....Pages 421-447
Front Matter....Pages 253-255
When the Friendly Tyrants Debate Does Not Matter: Jordan under the Hashemites....Pages 451-478
The United States and Pakistan: The Zia Era and the Afghan Connection....Pages 479-506
Friendly Tyrants: A Policy Primer....Pages 507-519
Back Matter....Pages 521-542

✦ Subjects

International Relations; Political Science

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