The Devil and Uncle Sam: A User's Guide to the Friendly Tyrant's Dilemma

by Adam Garfinkle

For more than forty years, the American government has struggled with the challenge of maintaining useful relations with a special breed of regime: one whose rulers profess a community of interests with the United States while they rule through authoritarian means. Relationships with such "friendly tyrants" almost invariably generate tensions between the need for prudent security strategies and the ideal of promoting liberty and human rights worldwide...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560000120
• ISBN13: 9781560000129
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 176 Pages