Kirkpatrick Doctrine

The Kirkpatrick doctrine was a political doctrine expounded by United States
Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick in the early 1980s which
attempted to justify American support for third world dictatorships with bad
human rights records and opposition to communist governments.

The doctrine claimed that the communist states which the United States
opposed were totalitarian regimes while the third-world dictatorships which
the United States supported were authoritarian ones. The doctrine further
argued that totalitarian regimes were more dangerous because they were more
stable than authoritarian regimes, and had a greater propensity to induce
neighboring states to in turn adopt dictatorial regimes. In this regard, the
Kirkpatrick doctrine was a natural successor to the domino theory.

The Kirkpatrick doctrine was strongly criticized for justifying United
States support for regimes with bad human rights records.

Interestingly, one of the tenets of the Kirkpatrick doctrine that
totalitarian regimes are more stable than authoritarian regimes was quickly
proven in error with the collapse of the Soviet Union which occurred
unexpectedly within a decade of the invention of the doctrine.

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