Kirkpatrick Doctrine

The Kirkpatrick Doctrine was a foreign policy doctrine expounded by United States ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick in the early 1980s based on her 1979 essay, "Dictatorships and Double Standards". The doctrine was used to justify U.S. foreign policy of supporting Third World anti-communist dictatorships during the Cold War.

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