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Defiant Dictatorships

Communist and Middle-Eastern Dictatorships in a Democratic Age

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  • © 1997

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Authors:
  1. Paul Brooker

    1. Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Introduction

    • Paul Brooker
    Pages 1-6

  3. Defiance as a Stabilising Influence

    • Paul Brooker
    Pages 7-24

  4. Communist China

    • Paul Brooker
    Pages 25-48

  5. Communist Vietnam

    • Paul Brooker
    Pages 49-65

  6. Communist North Korea

    • Paul Brooker
    Pages 66-81

  7. Communist Cuba

    • Paul Brooker
    Pages 82-98

  8. Baathist Syria

    • Paul Brooker
    Pages 99-113

  9. Baathist Iraq

    • Paul Brooker
    Pages 114-130

  10. Qadhafi’s Libya

    • Paul Brooker
    Pages 131-144

  11. Khomeinist Iran

    • Paul Brooker
    Pages 145-162

  12. Conclusion

    • Paul Brooker
    Pages 163-165

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 166-223
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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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