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

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.

List of contents

Introduction - Defiance As a Stabilising Influence - Communist China - Communist Vietnam - Communist North Korea - Communist Cuba - Baathist Syria - Baathist Iraq - Qadhafi's Libya - Khomeinist Iran - Conclusion: Explanations and Survival Strategies - Appendix: Baathist Ideology and Structure - Notes and References - Bibliography - Index

About the author

PAUL BROOKER

Product details

• Authors: P Brooker, P. Brooker
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9781349393985
• ISBN: 978-1-349-39398-5
• No. of pages: 223
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 204 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Illustrations: V, 223 p.
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education