David Gene" Evans: From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation
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- Kategoria: yhteiskunta & politiikka, alakategoria: valtio-oppi, politiikka
- Materiaali: Nidottu
- Kustantaja: New Press
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780262550703
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Twenty-one years ago, at a friend s request, a Massachusetts professor sketched out a blueprint for nonviolent resistance to repressive regimes. It would go on to be translated, photocopied, and handed from one activist to another, traveling from country to country across the globe: from Iran to Venezuelawhere 'both' countries consider Gene Sharp to be an enemy of the stateto Serbia; Afghanistan; Vietnam; the former Soviet Union; China; Nepal; and, more recently and notably, Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, and Syria, where it has served as a guiding light of the Arab Spring. This short, pithy, inspiring, and extraordinarily clear guide to overthrowing a dictatorship by nonviolent means lists 198 specific methods to consider, depending on the circumstances: sit-ins, popular nonobedience, selective strikes, withdrawal of bank deposits, revenue refusal, walkouts, silence, and hunger strikes. 'From Dictatorship to Democracy' is the remarkable work that has made the little-known Sharp into the world s most effective and sought-after analyst of resistance to authoritarian regimes. '