Perilous partners the benefits and pitfalls of America's alliances with authoritarian regimes
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Washington, D.C. :
Cato Institute,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Washington's questionable Cold War allies
- Uncle Sam's backyard: friendly Latin American strongmen
- Chiang Kai-Shek: America's troublesome "free world" client
- A preference for authoritarians: Washington backs South Korean dictators
- From Jinnah to jihad: Washington's Cold War relations with Pakistan
- Cold War to Holy War: the U.S.-Saudi alliance
- Subverting democracy: supporting the Shah of Iran
- Navigating a quagmire: sustaining South Vietnamese dictators
- Heart of darkness: U.S. policy toward Mobutu's dictatorship in Zaire
- Flying blind in Manila: enabling Ferdinand Marcos
- The "good communists": Tito and Ceaus̀¦escu
- Playing the China card: strategic rapprochement with Beijing
- America's authoritarian partners after 9/11
- Pyramid of cards: Washington's policy toward Egypt from Mubarak to El-Sisi
- From "golden chain" to Arab Spring: the sordid tale of U.S.-Saudi relations
- Janus-faced partners: America and Pakistan after 9/11
- Tangled trails of the Silk Road: Washington and Central Asia's tyrants
- Closing the values gap: protecting security, preserving values.
