{"product_id":"9781595588579","title":"From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eboth\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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. \u003ci\u003eFrom Dictatorship to Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157548744944,"sku":"9781595588579","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781595588579_p0.jpg?v=1769901359","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781595588579","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}