Friendly Tyrants: An American Dilemma

By Daniel Pipes

What do the South Vietnamese government, the Shah and Ferdinand Marcos have in common? All were allied to the United States; all defied democratic and liberal norms; and all three fell in a blaze, creating problems for the United States. These three cases - and another eighteen more - are the subject of Friendly Tyrants, the first study ever to survey the contentious, persistent problem of U.S. government relations with pro-American authoritarian rulers.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333543750
• ISBN13: 9780333543757
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 542 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"