THE IRON CAGE OF LIBERALISM

In this book, Daniel Ritter seeks to understand unarmed revolutions by posing two interrelated questions: Why do nonviolent revoluti onary movements in some countries topples autocratic regimes while similar movements elsewhere falter, and why has the world witness ed the proliferation of unarmed revolutions in the last forty years? Through a comparative historical analysis of the Iranian, Tunis ian, and Egyptian revolutions, he argues that close and friendly international relations between democratic states in the West and a uthorita...[Llegir més]