Understanding
how authoritarian dictatorships actually function would help
Washington to avoid future foreign policy disasters, writes Jon
Basil Utley. If Americans better understood the weaknesses of most
foreign dictatorships, we'd be less inclined to see them as great
threats and to waste resources trying to remake them.
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