ISBN:
9780230376380
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (v, 223 p)
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
Parallel Title:
Printed edition
Keywords:
Political theory
;
Comparative politics
;
Political science
;
Comparative government.
Abstract:
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
DOI:
10.1057/9780230376380
URL:
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