For U.S. policymakers, the collapse of governments headed by "good friends of the United States" has been, over the past thirty years, a repeated cause of alarm and embarrassment. Such crises of succession have implications not only for U.S. foreign policy but also for recent and forthcoming changes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Martin St

Preface -- Introduction -- Cuba, 1958-1959 -- Nicaragua, 1978-1979 -- Iran, 1978-1979 -- The Philippines, 1985-1986