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| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | The New Interstate System | 5 |
| The Superpowers and the United Nations | 7 | |
| Bretton Woods and Economic Development | 11 | |
| Decolonization | 14 | |
| Collaboration and Conflict | 17 | |
| 2 | Cold War | 18 |
| Disagreement and Division | 21 | |
| A World Divided | 30 | |
| 3 | Superpower Spheres and Dictatorships | 32 |
| Suez, Hungary, and Eroding Superpower Spheres | 37 | |
| Cold War Dictators | 45 | |
| 4 | Oil Crisis and Dictatorship in Southern Europe | 57 |
| Portugal and Salazar | 57 | |
| Spain and Franco | 59 | |
| Greece and Metaxas | 61 | |
| Dictatorships, World War, and Cold War | 62 | |
| Developmentalist Dictatorships | 65 | |
| Dollar Devaluation and Oil Crisis | 69 | |
| Colonial Rebellion and Domestic Revolt in Portugal | 71 | |
| Cyprus and the Greek Junta | 74 | |
| The Death of Franco | 78 | |
| 5 | Debt and Dictatorship in Latin America | 84 |
| Oil Crisis and Debt | 86 | |
| Debt Crisis and Structural Adjustment | 90 | |
| Indebted Dictators | 96 | |
| 6 | Democratization in Latin America | 98 |
| Democratization in the Small Republics | 101 | |
| Democratization in the Large Republics | 107 | |
| Residual Dictatorships | 118 | |
| Patterns of Democratization in Latin America | 124 | |
| Mexican and Cuban Exceptionalism | 127 | |
| 7 | Growth and Democratization in East Asia | 132 |
| Growth and Crisis | 139 | |
| Democratization in South Korea and Taiwan | 146 | |
| East Asian Exceptionalism | 149 | |
| 8 | Crisis and Reform in the Soviet Union | 159 |
| War in Afghanistan | 164 | |
| Economic Crisis in the Soviet Union | 166 | |
| Political Crisis in the Soviet Union | 168 | |
| Gorbachev and Reform | 169 | |
| 9 | Democratization in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union | 175 |
| Solidarity: The Polish Minjung | 178 | |
| The Hungarian Retreat | 181 | |
| The Wall Falls | 182 | |
| Democratizations Compared | 186 | |
| Transition in Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia | 189 | |
| Democratization and Division in the Soviet Union | 194 | |
| Post-Soviet Russia | 199 | |
| 10 | Debt and Divestment in South Africa | 202 |
| Economic Crisis | 203 | |
| Military "Defeat" | 206 | |
| The Black Minjung | 209 | |
| Majority Rule | 212 | |
| Democratization in Africa? | 215 | |
| 11 | Democracy and Development | 218 |
| Economic Crisis, Political Change, and Democratization | 222 | |
| Reviving the World Order | 224 | |
| Democratization and Economic Policy | 226 | |
| Opening Domestic Economies | 228 | |
| Privatization | 232 | |
| Demilitarization | 236 | |
| Prospects and Problems | 238 | |
| Global Obstacles | 242 | |
| Notes | 247 | |
| About the Book and Author | 316 | |
| Index | 317 |
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Lee Kaplan
reviewed Power to the people on April 03, 2017
Power to the people
A pretty interesting book, though it is dated with a 1997 copyright. The disagreement that I would have with the author is related to the Muslim world, particularly the Arab Middle East and North Africa where the Arab Spring advanced by President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to overthrow dictators such as Mubarak in Egypt and Qadafi in Libya in favor of democracies, and the current state of war in Syria after an abortive attempt to unseat the Assad regime had the opposite effect than is advanced by Rummel's book. Democracy in those nations fostered great bloodshed, for the following reasons. Mubarak, Qadafi, and the Assad regime demanded a monopoly of force in their nations, which consisted of various Muslim sects and ethnicities and a minority Christian population. Once democracies were in place the majority Muslim population then began a program of eliminating Muslim minority sects and Christians. Thus, Rummel's view of democracy as a method of nonviolence seems to work well in the West and in those parts of the far East influenced by the West, such as Japan, Korea, and the Philippines, he needs to take a close look at the Middle East and the influence of Islam, in my opinion.
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