Units: 5
Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour; extra reading, 2 hours; written work, 1 hour
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Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor
Description: Considers how dictatorships come to power and abuse that power. Also explores the dilemmas dictatorships faced, their successes, and why they met ultimate defeat. Includes study of dictatorships in Argentina, Chile, Haiti, Guatemala and Syria.
Credit: Credit is awarded for only one of POSC 157 or POSC 157S.