Regime Vulnerability and Popular Mobilization in Georgia’s Rose Revolution

Working Paper No 67, September

Author(s): Cory Welt

Center on Democracry, Development and the Rule of Law (Stanford University), Stanford CA, 2006, pp. 60

Discusses US involvement and assesses the ‘Serbian factor’ in diffusing strategic ideas. See also: Cory Welt, Georgia’s Rose Revolution: From Regime Weakness to Regime collapse, In Valerie J. Bunce, Michael McFaul, Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Postcommunist World (D. II.1. Comparative Assessments) New York, Cambridge University Press, 2009 , pp. 155-188 .

Available online as PDF at:

http://csis.org/files/media/csis/pubs/061005_ruseura_no67welt.pdf

Dilemmas of Democracy in Nigeria

Editor(s): Paul A Beckett, and Crawford Young

University of Rochester Press, Rochester, 1997, pp. 450

Multidisciplinary study by 13 Nigerian and 6 American political analysts of attempts at transition to democracy, including historical, social and economic as well as political factors.

Transnational Agrarian Movements: Confronting Globalization

Editor(s): Saturnino M. Borras Jr, Mark Edelman, and Cristobal Kay

Wiley Blackwell, Oxford, 2008, pp. 376

Covers transnational farmer resistance to WTO and other global institutions and high profile global alliances such as the small farmer organization Via Campesina. Case studies include Indonesian forest dwellers chopping down rubber plants to grow rice to eat, and Mexican migrants returning home to transform their communities. Also includes information on early 20th century agrarian movements.

On Nuclear Weapons: Denuclearization, Demilitarization and Disarmament. Selected Writings Of Richard Falk

Editor(s): Stefan Andersson, and Curt Dahlgren

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2019, pp. 450

At a time when international law and the law of war are particularly important and warlike rhetoric is creating new fears and heightening current tensions Falk’s message is particularly relevant. In this collection of essays, Falk examines the global threats to all humanity posed by nuclear weapons. He rejects the adequacy of arms control measures as a managerial stopgap to these threats and seeks no less than to move the world back from the nuclear precipice and towards denuclearization.

From Where We Stand: War, Women’s Activism and Feminist Analysis

Author(s): Cynthia Cockburn

Zed Books, London and New York, 2007, pp. 288

Examines women’s resistance to war in many parts of the world, including Sierra Leone, Colombia and Gujarat, India. It also covers women’s cooperation across enemy lines in the former Yugoslavia and in Israel/Palestine, and resistance in the west to imperialist war, and develops theoretical questions about gender and militarism. See also:  Cynthia Cockburn, Women in Black: The Stony Path to “Solidarity”, In Howard Clark, People Power: Unarmed Resistance and Global Solidarity (A. 1.b. Strategic Theory, Dynamics, Methods and Movements) London, Pluto Press, 2009 , pp. 156-163

John E. Fryer, MD and the Dr. H. Anonymous Episode

Author(s): D. I. Scasta

In: Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy, Vol 6, No 4, 2002, pp. 73-84

Recounts Fryer’s anonymous appearance on stage, at the 1972 American Psychiatric Association session on psychiatry and mental illness, to announce his homosexuality. (He spoke anonymously – as he explained later – through fear of being refused tenure at his university.)

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