The Withering Away of the Totalitarian State and Other Surprises.
by Kirkpatrick, Jeane J. [William Safire]
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Washington, D.C: The AEI Press, 1990. Jeane Duane Kirkpatrick was a diplomat and political scientist who played a major role in the foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration. An ardent anticommunist, she was a longtime Democrat who became a neoconservative and switched to the Republican Party in 1985. After serving as Ronald Reagan's foreign policy adviser in his 1980 campaign, she became the first woman to serve as United States Ambassador to the United Nations. She was known for the "Kirkpatrick Doctrine", which advocated supporting authoritarian regimes around the world if they went along with Washington's aims. She believed that they could be led into democracy by example. She wrote, "traditional authoritarian governments are less repressive than revolutionary autocracies." She sympathized with the Argentine government during the Falklands War when President Reagan came out in support of Margaret Thatcher. Kirkpatrick served on Reagan's Cabinet on the National Security Council, Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, Defense Policy Review Board, and chaired the Secretary of Defense Commission on Fail Safe and Risk reduction of the Nuclear Command and Control System. She wrote a syndicated newspaper column after leaving government service in 1985, specializing in analysis of the activities of the United Nations.
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- Raptis Rare Books (US)
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- Title
- The Withering Away of the Totalitarian State and Other Surprises.
- Author
- Kirkpatrick, Jeane J. [William Safire]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- The AEI Press
- Place of Publication
- Washington, D.C
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- Jeane Kirkpatrick Signed First Edition, The Withering Away of the Totalitarian State First Edition
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