Defiant Dictatorships

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 b

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DEFIANT DICTATORSHIPS

Also by Paul Brooker THE FACES OF FRATERNALISM: Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan

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TWENTIETH-CENTURY DICTATORSHIPS: The Ideological One-Party States

Defiant Dictatorships

Paul Brooker Lecturer in Politics Victoria University Wellington New Zealand

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Communist and Middle-Eastern Dictatorships in a Democratic Age

M ©Paul Brooker 1997

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Introduction

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Defiance as a Stabilising Influence

7

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Communist China

25

3

Communist Vietnam

49

4

Communist North Korea

66

5

Communist Cuba

82

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Baathist Syria

99

7

Baathist Iraq

114

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Qadhafi's Libya

131

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Khomeinist Iran

145

Conclusion

163

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Appendix I: Communist Ideology, Economy and Political Structure - the Orthodox Model

166

Appendix II: Baathist Ideology and Structure

171

Notes and References

175

Bibliography

206

Index

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