Editing Kirkpatrick Doctrine (section)

{{Short description|Principle in 1980s U.S. foreign policy}}
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The '''Kirkpatrick Doctrine''' was a foreign policy doctrine expounded by [[List of ambassadors of the United States to the United Nations|United States ambassador to the United Nations]] [[Jeane Kirkpatrick]] in the early 1980s based on her 1979 essay, "[[Dictatorships and Double Standards]]".<ref name=":0">Jeane Kirkpatrick, "[http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/dictatorships--double-standards-6189 Dictatorships and Double Standards] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110204172141/http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/dictatorships--double-standards-6189 |date=2011-02-04 }}," ''[[Commentary Magazine]]'' Volume 68, No. 5, November 1979, pp. 34–45.</ref>  The doctrine was used to justify [[Foreign policy of the United States|U.S. foreign policy]] of supporting [[Third World]] [[Anti-communism|anti-communist]] [[dictatorship]]s during the [[Cold War]].<ref name="jpost">{{cite news
 |title      = Middle Israel: The new world order
 |work       = The Jerusalem Post
 |date       = 2006-12-14
 |url        = https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Middle-Israel-The-new-world-order
 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161123150526/http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Middle-Israel-The-new-world-order
 |url-status = dead
 |archive-date = 2016-11-23
 |access-date = 2007-08-16
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