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Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- From an African Village to a Global Village -- Whither goest thou, the World? -- On the Futility and Danger of External Attempts to 'Democratise' China -- Regime Changes in Russia: Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Putin -- Democratic Peace Theories and Regime change -- Humanitarian Intervention, Civil Wars and Regime Change -- Conclusions -- Index.

Taking a historical and comparative perspective, the book analyses current attempts of regime change in various parts of the world, their intended and unintended consequences, as well as moral, legal and political aspects of external interference in internal processes.

Die Analyse des Vordenkers Gene Sharp zum Thema "Regime Change" gilt als Blaupause für Bewegungen, die einen Politikwechsel anstreben. Eine Infragestellung des Systems ist dafür nicht notwendig. Aber strategisch denken muß, wer die politischen Leitgedanken innerhalb der bestehenden Ordnung fundamental verändern will. Mitten in den europaweiten Aufbruch und erfolgreichen Durchbruch rechter und konservativer Politik hinein liefern wir die Übertragung erprobter Ansätze auf unsere Lage. Martin Sellner hat nicht nur Sharp gelesen und verstanden, sondern viele andere strategische Ansätze. Er bündelt sie, gleicht sie mit seinen Erfahrungen als Kopf der Identitären Bewegung ab, analysiert die Lage und formuliert den Fahrplan für einen Regime Change von rechts. Leitstrategie, Non-Strategie, Parlamentspatriotismus, Militanz, Remigration, Reconquista - noch nie ist rechts der Mitte so planmäßig und professionell über Chance, Durchhaltevermögen, Bündelung und Zusammenspiel der Kräfte nachgedacht worden. Sellner lädt zur Debatte ein und formuliert Verhaltenslehren, die sich jeder aneignen sollte, der sich ernsthaft am Kampf um die gute Zukunft unseres Landes beteiligen möchte. (Verlagstext)

Preliminary Material /M. Dieleman , J. Koning and P. Post -- Chapter One. Chinese Indonesians And Regime Change: Alternative Perspectives /Marleen Dieleman , Juliette Koning and Peter Post -- Chapter Two. Business, Belief, And Belonging: Small Business Owners And Conversion To Charismatic Christianity /Juliette Koning -- Chapter Three. Assimilation, Differentiation, And Depoliticization: Chinese Indonesians And The Ministry Of Home Affairs In Suharto's Indonesia /Nobuhiro Aizawa -- Chapter Four. Diversity In Compliance: Yogyakarta Chinese And The New Order Assimilation Policy /Andreas Susanto -- Chapter Five. The Chinese Connection: Rewriting Journalism And Social Categories In Indonesian History /Nobuto Yamamoto -- Chapter Six. The Loa Joe Djin-Case: A Trigger To Change /Patricia Tjiook-Liem -- Chapter Seven. Crisis Management And Creative Adjustment: Margo-Redjo In The 1930s /Alexander Claver -- Chapter Eight. The Oei Tiong Ham Concern And The Change Of Regimes In Indonesia, 1931-1950 /Peter Post -- Chapter Nine. Continuous And Discontinuous Change In Ethnic Chinese Business Networks: The Case Of The Salim Group /Marleen Dieleman -- Index /M. Dieleman , J. Koning and P. Post.

"This book analyses Myanmar's contemporary political history, arguing that Myanmar's so-called "democratization" has always been a calculated regime transition, planned by the military, with every intention for the military to remain the key permanent political actor in Myanmar's political regime. Using Myanmar's regime change since 2011 as an extended case study, the book offers an original theory of regime transition. The author argues that Myanmar's ongoing regime transition has not diverged from its authoritarian military root and explains how the military has long planned its voluntary partial withdrawal from direct politics. As a consequence, Myanmar's "disciplined democracy" contains features of democratic politics, but at its core, remains authoritarian. Providing an original contribution to the theoretical literature on regime change by developing a theory of trial and error regime transition, the book engages with and challenges the popular democratization theory by arguing that this theory does not sufficiently explain hybrid regimes or authoritarian durability. Additionally, the book adds to an alternative understanding of how the regime transition was initiated by examining the historical evolution of Myanmar's post-colonial regime and offers a fresh perspective on contemporary political developments in Myanmar. An important contribution to the study of authoritarian durability and the dynamics of regime change in Southeast Asia, this book will be of interest to academic researchers of comparative politics, international relations, and Southeast Asian studies."--

The false promise of covert regime change -- Causes : why do states launch regime changes? -- Conduct : why do states intervene covertly versus overtly? -- Consequences : how effective are covert regime changes? -- Overview of U.S.-backed regime changes during the Cold War -- Fostering communist heresy in Eastern Europe -- Containment, coup d'etat and the covert war in Vietnam -- Dictators and democrats in the Dominican Republic -- Covert regime change after the Cold War

Introduction to Myanmar's Paradoxical Regime Change -- Myanmar's Trial and Error Praetorian Regime -- The Origins of Contemporary Myanmar -- The Evolution of Myanmar's Military Regime -- A Disciplined Society for a Disciplined Democracy -- The International Dimension of Myanmar's Regime Change -- Myanmar's Way to Democracy.

Introduction to Myanmar's Paradoxical Regime Change -- Myanmar's Trial and Error Praetorian Regime -- The Origins of Contemporary Myanmar -- The Evolution of Myanmar's Military Regime -- A Disciplined Society for a Disciplined Democracy -- The International Dimension of Myanmar's Regime Change -- Myanmar's Way to Democracy.

"This paper presents a model of information and political regime change. If enough citizens act against a regime, it is overthrown. Citizens are imperfectly informed about how hard this will be and the regime can, at a cost, engage in propaganda so that at face-value it seems hard. This coordination game with endogenous information manipulation has a unique equilibrium and the paper gives a complete analytic characterization of its comparative statics. If the quantity of information available to citizens is sufficiently high, then the regime has a better chance of surviving. However, an increase in the reliability of information can reduce the regime's chances. These two effects are always in tension: a regime benefits from an increase in information quantity if and only if an increase in information reliability reduces its chances. The model allows for two kinds of information revolutions. In the first, associated with radio and mass newspapers under the totalitarian regimes of the early twentieth century, an increase in information quantity coincides with a shift towards media institutions more accommodative of the regime and, in this sense, a decrease in information reliability. In this case, both effects help the regime. In the second kind, associated with diffuse technologies like modern social media, an increase in information quantity coincides with a shift towards sources of information less accommodative of the regime and an increase in information reliability. This makes the quantity and reliability effects work against each other. The model predicts that a given percentage increase in information reliability has exactly twice as large an effect on the regime's chances as the same percentage increase in information quantity, so, overall, an information revolution that leads to roughly equal-sized percentage increases in both these characteristics will reduce a regime's chances of surviving"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site

"From Notre Dame professor and author of Why Liberalism Failed comes a provocative call for replacing the tyranny of the self-serving liberal elite with conservative leaders aligned with the interests of the working class. Classical liberalism promised to overthrow the old aristocracy, creating an order in which individuals could create their own identities and futures. To some extent it did-but it has also demolished the traditions and institutions that nourished ordinary people and created a new and exploitative ruling class. This class's economic libertarianism, progressive values, and technocratic commitments have led them to rule for the benefit of the "few" at the expense of the "many," precipitating our current political crises. In Regime Change, Patrick Deneen proposes a bold plan for replacing the liberal elite and the ideology that created and empowered them. Grass-roots populist efforts to destroy the ruling class altogether are naive; what's needed is the strategic formation of a new elite devoted to a "pre-postmodern conservatism" and aligned with the interest of the "many." Their top-down efforts to form a new governing philosophy, ethos, and class could transform our broken regime from one that serves only the so-called meritocrats. Drawing on the oldest lessons of the western tradition but recognizing the changed conditions that arise in liberal modernity, Deneen offers a roadmap for these changes, offering hope for progress after "progress" and liberty after liberalism."

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Preface -- Glossary of abbreviations and Portuguese terms -- 1 Introduction: Traditional politics, new authoritarianism -- THE PROBLEM ELABORATED: REGIME CHANGE AND POLITICAL CHANGE IN BRAZIL -- TRADITIONAL POLITICS AND THE TRADITIONAL POLITICAL ELITE -- REGIME CHANGE AND POLITICAL CONTINUITY: THE ROLE OF STATE-SOCIETY RELATIONS -- THE INQUIRY -- ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY -- 2 Oligarchical power and traditional politics in Minas Gerais -- TRADITIONAL POLITICS IN THE OLD REPUBLIC -- THE REVOLUTION OF 1930 AND POLITICAL CENTRALIZATION -- OLIGARCHY AND "POPULIST" DEMOCRACY -- CONCLUSIONS -- 3 The modern political economy of traditional politics -- STATE INTERVENTION IN BRAZIL -- THE INDUSTRIALIZATION OF MINAS GERAISI STATE AND BOURGEOISIE -- THE STATE AND THE POPULAR SECTORS -- INDUSTRIAL CONCENTRATION AND UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT -- CONCLUSIONS -- 4 Bureaucratic authoritarianism and the state elite -- THE BUREAUCRATIC-AUTHORITARIAN REGIME -- POLITICAL RECRUITMENT IN MINAS GERAIS -- POWER, POSITION, AND THE STATE -- POLITICAL ELITES, TRADITIONAL ELITES -- CONCLUSIONS -- 5 Back to patronage: State clientelism in Minas Gerais -- THE INCOMPLETE CENTRALIZATION OF STATE RESOURCES -- POLITICAL CONSTRAINTS ON THE MILITARY PROJECT -- CLIENTELISM RESTORED -- MINAS GERAIS: THE EXPANDING SCOPE OF STATE PATRONAGE -- THE POLITICS OF PATRONAGE: DISTRIBUTING STATE RESOURCES IN MINAS GERAIS -- THE REWARDS AND LIMITS OF CLIENTELISM -- CONCLUSIONS -- 6 Authoritarian politics and traditional elites -- POLITICAL COMPETITION AND ELITE TURNOVER -- RESTRICTING THE SCOPE OF POLITICAL COMPETITION -- LOCAL POLITICS AND THE DEMISE OF INTERPARTY COMPETITION -- AUTHORITARIAN POLITICS AND THE STATE OLIGARCHY -- CONCLUSIONS

1. Why Elect a Self-Defeating War? / 7. - 2. Bring 'Em On: Making the World Safe for Democracy / 38. - 3. What Went Wrong: The Decapitationist Consensus of Washington Elites / 72. - 4. What Were Neoconservatives Thinking? / 99. - 5. Democratic Hawks / 142. - 6. American Exceptionalism Meets Iraqi History / 183. - 7. The Semi-Sovereign Shi'i State / 222