{"product_id":"9781349393985","title":"Defiant Dictatorships: Communist and Middle-Eastern Dictatorships in a Democratic Age","description":"\u003ch1\u003eDefiant Dictatorships: Communist and Middle-Eastern Dictatorships in a Democratic Age\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eBrooker, P.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy 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 based upon external relations - the regimes' defiance of external military or political foes - and then searches for alternative or supplementary explanations by examining the changes that occurred in these dictatorships' political structures, ideologies and economic policies during 1980-94.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 1997-09-30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781349393985\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1057\/9780230376380\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 203cm x127cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 223\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44352545161356,"sku":"9781349393985","price":49.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781349393985.jpg?v=1775885369","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781349393985","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}