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Perilous Partners : the Benefits and Pitfalls of America's Alliances with Authoritarian Regimes.
American leaders have cooperated with regimes around the world that are, to varying degrees, repressive or corrupt. Such cooperation is said to serve the national interest. But these partnerships also contravene the nation's commitments to democratic governance, civil liberties, and free market...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Washington DC :
Cato Institute,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Washington's questionable Cold War allies
- Uncle Sam's backyard: friendly Latin American strongmen
- Chiang Kai-Shek: America's troublesome "free world" client
- A preference for authoritarians: Washington backs South Korean dictators
- From Jinnah to jihad: Washington's Cold War relations with Pakistan
- Cold War to Holy War: the U.S.-Saudi alliance
- Subverting democracy: supporting the Shah of Iran
- Navigating a quagmire: sustaining South Vietnamese dictators
- Heart of darkness: U.S. policy toward Mobutu's dictatorship in Zaire
- Flying blind in Manila: enabling Ferdinand Marcos
- The "good communists": Tito and Ceaușescu
- Playing the China card: strategic rapprochement with Beijing
- America's authoritarian partners after 9/11
- Pyramid of cards: Washington's policy toward Egypt from Mubarak to El-Sisi
- From "golden chain" to Arab Spring: the sordid tale of U.S.-Saudi relations
- Janus-faced partners: America and Pakistan after 9/11
- Tangled trails of the Silk Road: Washington and Central Asia's tyrants
- Closing the values gap: protecting security, preserving values.