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Friendly Tyrants

An American Dilemma

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  • © 1991

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  1. Daniel Pipes
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  2. Adam Garfinkle
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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. A Troubled History

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Friendly Tyrants and American Interests

      • Howard J. Wiarda
      Pages 3-20

    3. The Forties, Fifties, and Sixties

      1. The First Friendly Tyrants
        • Adam Garfinkle, Alan H. Luxenberg
        Pages 23-40
      2. South Vietnam: Autopsy of a Compound Crisis
        • Douglas Pike
        Pages 41-61
      3. The Nadir of Greek Democracy
        • Adam Garfinkle
        Pages 63-87

    4. In the Seventies

      1. Why Turkey Is Not a Friendly Tyrant
        • Paul B. Henze
        Pages 91-108
      2. The Collapse of the Somoza Regime
        • James Theberge
        Pages 109-129
      3. Too Little, Too Late: American Policy and the Shah of Iran
        • Barry Rubin
        Pages 131-150

    5. In the Eighties

      1. Argentina under the Junta, 1976–1982
        • Mark Falcoff
        Pages 153-176
      2. Malign Neglect: U.S. Policy toward Haiti under the Duvaliers
        • Georges Fauriol
        Pages 177-200
      3. Timely Daring: The United States and Ferdinand Marcos
        • Theodore Friend
        Pages 201-219
      4. Friendly Tyrants: Historical Reckoning
        • Adam Garfinkle
        Pages 221-251

  3. Current Challenges

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 253-255
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    2. Reflections on the Friendly Tyrants Dilemma Today

      • Michael Mandelbaum
      Pages 257-262

    3. Latin Labyrinth

      1. Uncomfortable Allies: U.S. Relations with Pinochet’s Chile
        • Mark Falcoff
        Pages 265-284
      2. Paraguay without Stroessner
        • Riordan Roett
        Pages 285-306
      3. Mexico: The Unraveling Of a Corporatist Regime?
        • Howard J. Wiarda, Carlos Guajardo
        Pages 307-327

    4. East Asian Troubles

      1. South Korea under Military Rule: Friendly Tyrant?
        • Edward A. Olsen
        Pages 331-351
      2. Taiwan under the Kuomintang: America and the China Puzzle
        • Martin L. Lasater
        Pages 353-377
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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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