Ted Galen Carpenter

Perilous Partners: The Benefits and Pitfalls of America's Alliances with Authoritarian Regimes

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Produktbeschreibung

Perilous Partners creates a strategy for conducting an effective U.S. foreign policy without betraying fundamental American values.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cato Institute
• Seitenzahl: 600
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 1028g
• ISBN-13: 9781939709707
• ISBN-10: 1939709709
• Artikelnr.: 42283433

Autorenporträt

Ted Galen Carpenter is senior fellow for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. He is the author of 18 books and the editor of 10 on international affairs, including The Fire Next Door: Mexico's Drug Violence and the Danger to America; Smart Power: Toward a Prudent Foreign Policy for America; and Korean Conundrum: America's Troubled Relations with North and South Korea. Malou Innocent is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. She was a foreign policy analyst at the Cato Institute from 2007 to 2013. She is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and her primary research interests include Middle East and Persian Gulf security issues and U.S. foreign policy toward Pakistan, Afghanistan, and China.

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: Washington's Questionable Cold War Allies
Chapter 1 Uncle Sam's Backyard: Friendly Latin American Strongmen
Chapter 2 Chiang Kai-shek: America's Troublesome "Free World" Client
Chapter 3 A Preference for Authoritarians: The U.S. Backs South Korean
Dictators
Chapter 4 From Jinnah to Jihad: Washington's Cold War Ties with Pakistan
Chapter 5 Cold War to Holy War: The U.S.-Saudi Alliance
Chapter 6 Subverting Democracy: Supporting the Shah of Iran
Chapter 7 Navigating a Quagmire: Sustaining South Vietnamese Dictators
Chapter 8 Heart of Darkness: U.S. Policy toward Mobutu's Dictatorship in
Zaire
Chapter 9 Flying Blind in Manila: Enabling Ferdinand Marcos
Chapter 10 The "Good Communists": Tito and Ceaüescu
Chapter 11 Playing the China Card: Strategic Rapprochement with Beijing
Part Two: America's Authoritarian Partners after 9/11
Chapter 12 Pyramid of Cards: Washington's Policy toward Egypt from Mubarak
to El-Sisi
Chapter 13 From "Golden Chain" to Arab Spring: The Sordid Tale of
U.S.-Saudi Ties
Chapter 14 Janus-Faced Partners: America and Pakistan after 9/11
Chapter 15 Tangled Tales of the Silk Road: Washington and Central Asia's
Tyrants
Part Three: Concluding Observations
Chapter 16 Closing the Values Gap: Protecting Security, Preserving Values