What Sun Tzu and Clausewitz were to war, Sharp.
From Dictatorship to Democracy 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..
This 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.
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 both 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. was to nonviolent struggle--strategist, philosopher, guru.-- The New York Times The revolutionary word-of-mouth phenomenon, available for the first time as a trade book Twenty-one years ago, at a friend\'s request, a Massachusetts professor sketched out a blueprint for nonviolent resistance to repressive regimes. . .
What Sun Tzu and Clausewitz were to war, Sharp
