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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 gl…
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 gl…
Why do some autocratic leaders pursue aggressive or expansionist foreign policies, while others are much more cautious in their use of military force? The first book to focus systematically on the foreign policy of different types of authoritarian regimes, Dictators at War and P…
Why do some autocratic leaders pursue aggressive or expansionist foreign policies, while others are much more cautious in their use of military force? The first book to focus systematically on the foreign policy of different types of authoritarian regimes, Dictators at War and P…
This volume offers a major new theory of authoritarian politics. It studies regime struggles between government and opposition under electoral authoritarianism and argues that autocracies suffer from institutional uncertainties.
This volume offers a major new theory of authoritarian politics. It studies regime struggles between government and opposition under electoral authoritarianism and argues that autocracies suffer from institutional uncertainties.
Presenting an analysis of the 20th-century form of dictatorship, the ideological one-party state, this book points to 16 case-studies of notable or representative examples; the party-state regime, the military-state regime and regimes that have transformed from one to the other.
Presenting an analysis of the 20th-century form of dictatorship, the ideological one-party state, this book points to 16 case-studies of notable or representative examples; the party-state regime, the military-state regime and regimes that have transformed from one to the other.
This book examines the evolution of democracy in Ghana and Tanzania, following long periods of single-party and military rule, and looks at the current and potential obstacles to democratic development. After discussing the nature of democracy, the author goes on to consider the…
"This study of the Vicaría de Solidaridad provides detailed coverage of its efforts on behalf of human rights during the early years (1973-82) of military rule. While the organization did much to strengthen the Church's credibility with popular sector Chileans, it may not offer …
