Explains how dictatorships rise, survive, and fall, along with why some but not all dictators wield vast powers.

The dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, who ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961, was one of the longest and bloodiest in Latin A

A study of post-war US policy towards countries which are politically unstable or in a pre-revolutionary situation. Orme argues that the "middle options" have p