Up in Arms: How Military Aid Stabilizes--And Destabilizes--Foreign Autocrats - Hardcoverby Adam E. Casey (Author) An "extraordinary must read" (Steven Levitsky, New York Times bestselling coauthor of How Democracies Die) look at how support from foreign superpowers propped up and pulled down authoritarian regimes during the Cold War, offering lessons for today's great power competition Throughout the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union competed to prop up friendly dictatorships abroad. Today, it is commonly assumed that this