Dictatorships
Book - 2013
The information in this volume provides insight into the validity of dictatorship as a form of government, and the current status of dictatorships in the world. Varied expert opinions are presented from a wide range of highly respected and often hard-to-find sources and publications. Allows the reader to attain the higher-level critical thinking skills that are essential in a culture of diverse and contradictory opinions.
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- Published
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Detroit :
Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
[2013]
- Language
- English
- Other Authors
- Physical Description
- 222 pages ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-206) and index.
- ISBN
- 9780737763140
9780737763157
- Ch. 1 Can dictatorships be a good form of government? : The good autocrat / Robert D. Kaplan
- All dictatorships are evil / Sergiu Vidican
- Lessons from Libya: who defines a dictator? / Sishuwa Sishuwa
- Dictatorships often survive with local support / Bill Snyder ; Ch. 2 Are select dictatorships becoming democracies? : Myanmar has begun to democratize / Pauline H. Baker
- Despite elections, Myanmar remains a dictatorship / David I. Steinberg
- Watching Titanic in Pyongyang / Geoffrey Cain
- North Korea's dictatorship will endure / John Fraser
- Fidel's children / Joseph Contreras
- Dictatorship in Cuba will continue / The Economist ; Ch. 3 Are select democracies becoming dictatorships? : Chavez: From hero to tyrant / Alice O'Keeffe
- Hugo Chavez is not changing Venezuela into a dictatorship / Bhaskar Sunkara
- Democracies in Africa are becoming dictatorships / Jerome Y. Bachelard, Richard R. Marcus
- Economic freedom: country studies--Kenya / Democracy Web ; Ch. 4 What does the future hold for Middle Eastern governments? : The Arab spring will lead to the fall of dictatorships across the Middle East / Shankar Kumar
- The Arab spring will not lead to the fall of dictatorships across the Middle East / Laurel E. Miller, Jeffrey Martini, F. Stephen Larrabee, Angel Rabasa, Stephanie Pezard, Julie E. Taylor, Tewodaj Mengistu
- America's unsavory allies / Uri Friedman
- Think again: dictators / Graeme Robertson
- After the dictators / Sholto Byrnes.