The United States and right-wing dictatorships, 1965-1989 /
"Building on David Schmitz's earlier work, Thank God They're on Our Side, this is an examination of American policy toward right-wing dictatorships from the 1960s to the end of the Cold War. During the 1920s, American leaders developed a policy of supporting authoritarian regimes beca...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "Building on David Schmitz's earlier work, Thank God They're on Our Side, this is an examination of American policy toward right-wing dictatorships from the 1960s to the end of the Cold War. During the 1920s, American leaders developed a policy of supporting authoritarian regimes because they were seen as stable, anticommunist, and capitalist. After 1965, however, American support for these regimes became a contested issue. The Vietnam War served to undercut the logic and rationale of supporting right-wing dictators. By systematically examining U.S. support for right-wing dictatorships in Africa, Latin America, Europe, and Asia and bringing together these disparate episodes, this book examines the persistence of older attitudes, the new debates brought about by the Vietnam War, and the efforts to bring about changes and an end to automatic U.S. support for authoritarian regimes."--Jacket. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 263 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-257) and index. |
ISBN: | 0511191979 9780511191978 0511190166 9780511190162 0521861330 9780521861335 0521678536 9780521678537 0511191693 9780511191695 9780511819971 0511819978 9780511316159 0511316151 |