TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sharp,Gene
TI  - From dictatorship to democracy: a conceptual framework for liberation 
SN  - 9781595588500 (pbk.)
AV  - JC 423 S531f 2012
U1  - 321.8 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York, [Jackson, Tenn.]
PB  - New Press, Distributed by Perseus
KW  - Democratization
KW  - Democratización
KW  - Nonviolence
KW  - No violencia
KW  - Strategic planning
KW  - Planificación estratégica
KW  - Dictatorship
KW  - Dictadura
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Facing dictatorships realistically
The dangers of negotiations
Whence comes the power?
Dictatorships have weaknesses
Exercising power
The need for strategic planning
Planning strategy
Applying political defiance
Disintegrating the dictatorship
Groundwork for durable democracy
Appendix: The methods of nonviolent action
N2  - 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 Venezuela -- where both countries consider Gene Sharp to be an enemy of the state -- to 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 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
ER  -