Fostering a Fourth Democratic Wave
Published on 22. May 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
90 pages
978-1-943271-86-3 (ISBN)
Description
A powerful autocratic wave is sweeping the globe. Over the last 17 years, no country remains untouched.
Fostering a Fourth Democratic Wave builds on a growing body of research that finds that civil resistance movements-using tactics such as strikes, boycotts, civil disobedience, and a range of other nonviolent tactics-are one of the most powerful forces for democracy worldwide and therefore are central to countering the authoritarian threat.
It advances a three-part strategy to do so by:
1. Proposing new approaches and tools to support civil resistance movements.
2. Advancing a new international norm-the "Right to Assistance" to pro-democracy movements.
3. Outlining strategic and tactical options to constrain authoritarian regimes and drive up the cost of their repression.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 280 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
360 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-943271-86-3 (9781943271863)
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Hardy Merriman is President of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Atlantic Council's Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, and was a Principal Investigator (PI) on the Fostering a Fourth Democratic Wave Project. He has worked in the field of civil resistance for over two decades, presenting at workshops for activists and organizers from around the world; developing programs and grantmaking for practitioners and scholars; publishing commentary; and speaking widely about civil resistance movements with academics, journalists, and members of international organizations.In addition to his leadership of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, he also taught as an adjunct lecturer at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University from 2016-8. His writings have been translated into numerous languages. Recent publications include coauthoring the book Glossary of Civil Resistance: A Resource for Study and Translation of Key Terms (2021), and the report Preventing Mass Atrocities: From a Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) to a Right to Assist (RtoA) Campaigns of Civil Resistance (2019).