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Free Download Susan Stewart, "Democracy Promotion and the ‘Colour Revolutions’"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1138110582 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 0.6 mb
This book reviews the interplay between domestic contexts and democracy promotion efforts in selected countries of the former Soviet Union and the Western Balkans. The idea behind the six case studies is twofold. In the three cases where ‘colour revolutions’ occurred (Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine), the authors explore the extent to which external democracy promoters adapted their strategies to respond to new domestic contexts. In the other three cases (Azerbaijan, Belarus, Russia) the authors investigate how the political leadership has reacted to ‘colour revolutions’ elsewhere and which consequences their reactions have had for democracy promotion. In all cases an assessment of democratization processes in the country is provided as a basis for drawing conclusions about the potential for domestic and foreign actors to promote democratic development. An introduction and conclusion embed the case studies in the existing literature on democracy promotion and generalize the findings across the countries studied.

Free Download Revolutions and Revolutionaries by A.J.P. Taylor
English | March 28, 2019 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B07Q3G79XT | 54 pages | EPUB | 1.26 Mb
From the fall of the Bastille to the storming of the Winter Palace in Moscow, Europe has been rocked by violent upheavals and dominated by insurrections. But why were some revolutions successful while others failed?

Free Download Yitzhak M. Brudny, "Coloured Revolutions and Authoritarian Reactions (Democratization Special Issues)"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0415639573 | EPUB | pages: 158 | 0.7 mb
Between 2000 and 2005, colour revolutions swept away authoritarian and semi-authoritarian regimes in Serbia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine. Yet, after these initial successes, attempts to replicate the strategies failed to produce regime change elsewhere in the region. The book argues that students of democratization and democracy promotion should study not only the successful colour revolutions, but also the colour revolution prevention strategies adopted by authoritarian elites. Based on a series of qualitative, country-focused studies the book explores the whole spectrum of anti-democratization policies, adopted by autocratic rulers and demonstrates that authoritarian regimes studied democracy promotion techniques, used in various colour revolutions, and focused their prevention strategies on combatting these techniques.

Free Download Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them) by Jack Posobiec, Joshua Lisec, Stephen K Bannon
English | July 9, 2024 | ISBN: 1648210856 | 272 pages | PDF | 5.24 Mb
NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, and ✅PublisherS WEEKLY NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Free Download The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn, Dennis Holland, Audible Studios
English | January 12, 2016 | ISBN: B002AHYJQC | 10 hours and 14 minutes | M4B 64 Kbps | 336 Mb
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is a landmark in intellectual history which has attracted attention far beyond its own immediate field. It is written with a combination of depth and clarity that make it an almost unbroken series of aphorisms. Its author, Thomas S. Kuhn, wastes little time on demolishing the logical empiricist view of science as an objective progression toward the truth. Instead he erects from ground up a structure in which science is seen to be heavily influenced by nonrational procedures, and in which new theories are viewed as being more complex than those they usurp but not as standing any closer to the truth. Science is not the steady, cumulative acquisition of knowledge that is portrayed in the textbooks. Rather, it is a series of peaceful interludes punctuated by intellectually violent revolutions . . . in each of which one conceptual world view is replaced by another.

Free Download Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (And How to Crush Them) (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D81FH1VJ | 2024 | 10 hours and 1 minute | M4B@128 kbps | 546 MB
Author: Jack Posobiec, Joshua Lisec
Narrator: Chase Macdonald
If you don’t understand communist revolutions, you aren’t ready for what’s coming. The old rules are over. The old order is over. Accusations are evidence. Activism means bigotry and hate. Criminals are allowed to roam free. Citizens are locked up. An appetite for vengeance is unleashed-to deplatform, debank, destroy. This is the daily news, yet none of it’s new. Patterns from the past make sense of our present. They also foretell a terrifying future we might be condemned to endure. For nearly 250 years, far-left uprisings have followed the same battle plans-from the first call for change to last innocent executed, from denial a revolution is even happening to declaration of the new order.

Free Download Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform our Lives, Work, and World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKNJZFP1 | 2024 | 15 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 452 MB
Author: Jamie Metzl
Narrator: Jamie Metzl, James Anderson Foster
In Superconvergence, leading futurist and OneShared.World founder Jamie Metzl explores how genome sequencing, gene editing, artificial intelligence, and other technologies are not only changing our lives, but catalyzing each other in radical and accelerating ways. These technologies have the potential to improve our health, feed billions of people, supercharge our economies, and store essential information for millions of years, but can also-if we are not careful-do immeasurable harm. The challenge we face is that while the ability to engineer the world around us is advancing exponentially, our processes for understanding the scope, scale, and implications of these changes is only increasing linearly and our capacity to govern our godlike capabilities wisely is only inching forward glacially. Luckily, in Jamie Metzl we have a thinker who has followed this phenomenon for decades and who integrates science, history, politics, and international affairs to envision a future that many specialists, almost by definition, cannot see. In Superconvergence, Metzl gives us the definitive account of the technological precipice on which we stand and the map to where we go from here.

Free Download Private Revolutions: Four Women Face China’s New Social Order (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CMJNBS8D | 2024 | 9 hours and 8 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 242 MB
Author: Yuan Yang
Narrator: Yuan Yang, Crystal Yu, Gabby Wong, Kae Alexander, Naomi Yang
A sweeping yet intimate portrait of modern China told through the lives of four ordinary women striving for a better future in a highly unequal society. While serving as the deputy Beijing bureau chief of the Financial Times, Chinese-British journalist Yuan Yang began to notice common threads in the lives of her Chinese peers-women born during China’s turn toward capitalism in the 1980s and 1990s, who, despite the country’s enormous economic gains during their lifetimes, were coming up against deeply entrenched barriers as they sought to achieve financial stability. The product of seven years of intimate, in-depth reporting, this transporting and indelible book traces the journey of four such women as they try to make better lives for themselves and their families in the new Chinese economy.

Free Download Rebel With a Cause: Roots, Records and Revolutions by Darcus Beese
English | 15 Aug. 2024 | ISBN: 1788706099 | True EPUB | 320 pages | 3.7 MB
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Free Download Leaving the Twentieth Century: Situationist Revolutions by McKenzie Wark
English | August 20, 2024 | ISBN: 1804294861 | True EPUB | 416 pages | 0.8 MB
The acclaimed history of the groundbreaking Situationist movement