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Gene Sharp
How Nonviolent Struggle Works (2013)
PREFACE
This small book offers the principal contents of the 902 pages of the original 1973 The Politics of Nonviolent Action to anyone who wants to learn the substance of how nonviolent struggle works.(1) That is, how the nonviolent technique can operate in conflicts, even when strong opponen...
Gene Sharp
Self Liberation - A Guide to Strategic Planning for Action to End a Dictatorship or Other Oppression (2009)
Which way to liberation?
Many people live in countries with governments that can be identified as dictatorships, or less harshly, authoritarian regimes. Usually, most of the people in those countries would like their oppres...
Bruce Jenkins & Gene Sharp
The Anti-Coup (2004)
From the Introduction
Supporters of political democracy, human rights, and social justice have good reasons to be alarmed about coups d'état. These abrupt seizures of the state apparatus have occurred with great frequency in recent decades. Coups have overthrown established constitutional dem...
Walter H. Conser, Jr & Ronald M. McCarthy & David J. Toscano & Gene Sharp
Before Lexington - Resistance, Politics, and the American Struggle for Independence, 1765–1775 (2015)
PREFACE TO THE 1986 EDITION
The struggle for American independence has captured the attention of American historians since the beginning of our history as a nation. S...
Gene Sharp
The Role of Power in Nonviolent Struggle (1990)
INTRODUCTION
Nonviolent struggle is based upon the very nature of power in society and politics. The practice, dynamics, and consequences of nonviolent struggle are all directly dependent upon the wielding of power and its effects on the power of the opponent group. This technique c...
