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Inside the Global Battle for Democracy
Doubleday
June 2012
On Sale: June 5, 2012
322 pages
ISBN: 0385533357
EAN: 9780385533355
Kindle: B006V3E1RI
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Non-Fiction
In this riveting portrait of authoritarianism in peril,
acclaimed journalist William Dobson takes us inside the
relentless battle between dictators and the people
challenging their rule.
We are witnessing an
incredible moment in the war between dictators and
democracy—waves of protests are sweeping Syria and Yemen,
and despots have fallen in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya. But
the Arab Spring is only the latest front in a worldwide
battle between freedom and repression, a battle that also
rages in a dozen other countries from Venezuela to China,
Russia to Malaysia. It is a struggle that, until recently,
dictators have been winning hands-down. The reason is that
today’s authoritarian regimes are nothing like the
frozen-in-time government of North Korea. They are
ever-morphing, technologically savvy, and internationally
connected, and they have replaced more brutal forms of
intimidation with seemingly “free” elections and talk of
human rights. Facing off against modern dictators is an
unlikely army of democracy advocates—students, bloggers,
environmentalists, lawyers, activists, and millionaires—who
are growing increasingly savvy themselves. The result is a
global game of cat-and-mouse, where the future of freedom
hangs in the balance. Dobson takes us behind the scenes in
both camps, and reveals how each side is honing its
strategies for the war that will define our age.
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