The nonviolent overthrow of Balkan dictator Slobodan Milošević in October 2000 is celebrated as democracy promotion at its best. This perceived political success has been used to justify an industry tasked with "exporting" democracy to countries like Belarus, Ukraine, Tunisia, a…
Demonstrates that democracy took root in Serbia in spite of, not because of Western intervention--in fact, foreign intervention often hurt rather than helped Serbia's tenuous transition to democracy.--Provided by publisher.
Drawing from declassified CIA documents, personal interviews, and internal NGO documents, Engineering Revolution uncovers the true extent of the West's involvement in the overthrow of Balkan dictator Slobodan Miloševic´--finding that Western governments often hurt, rather than h…
"This book analyses Myanmar's contemporary political history, arguing that Myanmar's so-called "democratization" has always been a calculated regime transition, planned by the military, with every intention for the military to remain the key permanent political actor in Myanmar'…
"This book analyses Myanmar's contemporary political history, arguing that Myanmar's so-called "democratization" has always been a calculated regime transition, planned by the military, with every intention for the military to remain the key permanent political actor in Myanmar'…
"This book analyses Myanmar's contemporary political history, arguing that Myanmar's so-called "democratization" has always been a calculated regime transition, planned by the military, with every intention for the military to remain the key permanent political actor in Myanmar'…
This book examines the regime changes in Iraq and Libya to unravel the complexity of statebuilding in countries emerging from authoritarianism and conflict in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Framed in a comparative study of post-2003 Iraq and post-2011 Libya, the…
Introduction : regimes and regime change in Italy, c.1494-c.1559 / Alexander Lee and Brian Jeffrey Maxson -- Regime change in Sabaudian lands, 1536-1580 / Matthew Vester -- Memories and fantasies of regime change in Spanish Naples / Stephen Cummins -- Chutes and ladders : the tw…
