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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Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand

Paul Brooker

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PAUL BROOKER

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Book Title: Defiant Dictatorships
Book Subtitle: Communist and Middle-Eastern Dictatorships in a Democratic Age
Authors: Paul Brooker
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230376380
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-63172-0Published: 30 September 1997
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-39398-5Published: 30 September 1997
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37638-0Published: 30 September 1997
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 223
Topics: Comparative Politics, Political Theory, Political Science

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