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Natan Sharansky believes that the truest expression of democracy is the ability to stand in the middle of a town square and express one's views without fear of imprisonment. He should know. A dissident in the USSR, Sharansky was jailed for nine years for challenging Soviet policies. During that time he reinforced his moral conviction that democracy is essential to both protecting human rights and maintaining global peace and security.

Sharansky was catapulted onto the Israeli political stage in 1996. In the last eight years, he has served as a minister in four different Israeli cabinets, including a stint as Deputy Prime Minister, playing a key role in government decision making from the peace negotiations at Wye to the war against Palestinian terror. In his views, he has been as consistent as he has been stubborn: Tyranny, whether in the Soviet Union or the Middle East, must always be made to bow before democracy.

Drawing on a lifetime of experience of democracy and its absence, Sharansky believes that only democracy can safeguard the well-being of societies. For Sharansky, when it comes to democracy, politics is not a matter of left and right, but right and wrong.

This is a passionately argued book from a man who carries supreme moral authority to make the case he does here: that the spread of democracy everywhere is not only possible, but also essential to the survival of our civilization. His argument is sure to stir controversy on all sides; this is arguably the great issue of our times.

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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.
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Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: PublicAffairs (February 7, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1586483544
ISBN-13: 978-1586483548
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.4 inches
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- #402 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics & Government > Specific Topics > Political Freedom
- #591 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics & Government > Ideologies & Doctrines > Democracy
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Very revelant to today's foreign policy debate. Humans are ...

ByRecrodIIon October 2, 2014

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Very revelant to today's foreign policy debate. Humans are basically the same around the world; they innately strive for freedom. They want to have the opportunity to prosper for their families and to be left in peace and those dictators who pre vent that should not be dealt with, I.e. you can,t make a deal with the devil and we continue to believe you can.

Sahransky makes the case for not "dealing with the Devils" and shows how we have made that mistake over and over.

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Excellent - a real thought provoking book!

ByNarut UjnatVINE VOICEon September 3, 2005

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Since the fact of the matter here on Amazon is to opine on the quality of the book, and not regard politics, I will write about the book. Sharansky offers a very compelling and interesting perspective on the last 50 years of world history. In short, this book is worth reading.

Sharansky himself offers an interesting and personal perspective on the matters he writes about since he was a Soviet dissedent during the Cold War - a refusenik. Now, he is a Isreali politician. Basically, his thesis is that making a democracy anywhere makes all democracies safer everywhere.

Is he correct? Well, Sharansky offers his personal history as well as world history to support his thesis. No matter your opinion, a compelling case is made by the author regarding the strength of democracies. There is no doubt that this book is written from the international realist school. And frankly, this book would make a compelling starting point for discussions in a graduate seminar on political theory or international relations.

The author does not believe in observing normative international law - as he believes, for example, that the United States can bypass the United Nations, and not observe international law in its pursuit of spreading democracy.

Is he correct? Well, reader, I again believe in opining on the book itself. Unlike many a graduate course textbook you could read on the subject - Martin Lipset jumps to my mind - frankly anyone interested in politics and the international arena can benefit from this book. It is extremely well written, thought provoking, and while intellectually challenging, easy to read. You may fault the author on every page, or wear out your head nodding in agreement, however, it is still a good book.

In short, whether you agree or disagree with the author's central thesis, this book is so important to read. It is a magnifying glass into the intellectual battlefront of the current administration and its critics, and also a blueprint for this nation's beliefs about itself and the course being steered on foreign policy. A book well worth reading for the quality of argument, the ease of understanding, and the ability of the author to stir argument.

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A principaled and simplistic prespective.

ByKennen Haason November 2, 2007

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The Case is a primer on how to defeat totalitarianism. The Case also violates both liberal and conservative orthodoxy. The Case states that free nations have the moral high ground and should use that in conjunction with all other available tools to push totalitarian regimes past their tipping point regardless of economic or tactical concerns. The Case establishes that totalitarian regimes are always on the edge of ruin and need just be nudged to be destroyed.

On the other side The Case fails to account for the message of Samuel P. Huntington (The Clash of Civilizations). The Case ignores the role cultural and religious factors. By assuming that the only differences between the peoples of the earth are their forms of governments The Case greatly oversimplifies foreign policy questions and ignores two of the most powerful forces in history. Namely faith and ethnicity. Bush and Shcharansky have much in common both good and bad. Both are freedom loving, historically minded, principled men, who lack the depth of understanding required to tackle real world problems.

Read The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order to further inform your perspective. Taken together these books are quite a bit more than the sum of their parts.

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ByThomas Brownon August 21, 2005

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If you truly and selflessly hold to the concept that all men are created equal and that freedom is an unalienable right of all human beings; and if that idea burns within you to the degree that you bristle with fury when you read stories of tyranny's inhumanity to man, then you will agree that Natan Sharansky is one of the most important voices of our century. This book cries out to be read by every true American.

I have read the arm-chair criticisms of several reviews here panning, not just Sharansky's book, but the man himself. Sharansky's views were hammered out through many years as a victim over the anvil of a totalitarian regime. It is both his suffering and his refusal to bow that gives him credence and his voice legitimacy. He says;

"We dissidents could ready ourselves psychologically for a life of risk, arrest, and imprisonment. But we could never fully prepare ourselves for the disappointment that came from seeing the free world abandon its own values. And nowhere was this disappointment more bitterly experienced than from the confines of a prison cell."

I would ask what equivalent time his critics could offer to fortify the liberal, pseudo-intellectual fluff that they purport as "counter-argument"? Of course, those without such credentials will passionately denigrate them. Where the voice of truth is raised, it's enemies immediately swarm in abundance.

Many liberals will argue that war is never justifiable. They would pass by the alley from which a woman's voice of terror emanates. The attitude that there is nothing worth dying for can only come from the churning bowels of a cowardice that permeates "progressive" thought. The contention that peace can be bought by appeasing an enemy whose sole existence is bent on our annihilation is the contention of one who deserves his inexorable fate at the hands of that enemy.

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