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The Case for Democracy
The Power Of Freedon to Overcome Tyranny And Terror
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As Anatoly Sharansky, he was a political prisoner of the Soviet Union, an experience he recounted in an earlier memoir, FEAR NO EVIL. He took the name Natan when he moved to Israel to join his family, shortly after his release in 1986, which was the...more
As Anatoly Sharansky, he was a political prisoner of the Soviet Union, an experience he recounted in an earlier memoir, FEAR NO EVIL. He took the name Natan when he moved to Israel to join his family, shortly after his release in 1986, which was the result of an international campaign and the intercession of President Reagan. Sharansky draws on this unique perspective, and on his career as an Israeli politician, to view the crisis in the Middle East through the lens of freedom and tyranny. Dividing the world into governments that allow dissent and those that stifle it, he is forthright and uncompromising in his assessment of those nations which operate by terror, and of the prospects for bringing democratic ways to the Middle East. Sharansky was a participant in the failed attempts to bring about agreements between Israel and Palestine at Oslo, and he provides insider accounts and an informed analysis of those negotiations. THE CASE FOR DEMOCRACY became newsworthy when it was reported that President George W. Bush considered it one of his favorite books, and it is said to have been formative in both the ideas and the language of Bush`s State of the Union address in January, 2005.
- Author:
- Dermer, Ron
- ISBN:
- 9781586483548
- Format:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 303
- Publish Date:
- 02/06/2006
- Publisher:
- PublicAffairs
- Language:
- English
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Drawing on his autobiography-from Soviet refusenik to Israeli cabinet minister - Sharansky distinguishes between "fear" and "free" societies. He spends a significant amount of time taking on conservative "realists" who prize stability in international relations, as well as liberals who he says fail to distinguish between flawed democracies that struggle to implement human rights and authoritarian or totalitarian states that flout human rights as a matter of course. Sharansky criticizes those who argue that democracy is culturally contingent and therefore unsuited for Muslim societies. Turning to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he mentions documented Israeli human rights abuses, but places the bulk of the blame for the conflict on the dictatorial systems prevalent in Arab societies. He also weighs in on the vexing subject of how to distinguish legitimate criticism of Israel from the "new anti-Semitism." Such criticism must pass the "3D" test of "[no] demonization, double standards, or delegitimation." Sharansky does not grapple deeply with the current situation in Iraq, but his opinions throughout, honed through years in a Soviet prison and in the corridors of power, feel earned. Agent, Marvin Josephson at ICM. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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