Summary: The Case for Democracy E-Book

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• Herausgeber: Political Book Summaries
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 21

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

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The must-read summary of Natan Sharansky's book: “The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror”.

This complete summary of "The Case for Democracy" by Natan Sharansky, former USSR dissident and avid promoter of democracy, presents his argument that human rights and democracy go together, and he also says that promoting peace and stability in the world is equivalent to spreading freedom. Therefore he argues that societies based on fear cannot compete with free societies and neither can they sustain themselves once their citizens have tasted freedom.

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Book Presentation: The Case for Democracy by Natan Sharansky (with Ron Dermer)

Book Abstract

George W. Bush has cited The Case for Democracy as an important influence and in this book, Natan Sharansky makes the case that human rights and democracy go hand in hand. Sharansky believes the world can be divided into free societies and fear societies. Although fear societies use cruelty and terror to subjugate their own citizens, inevitably the mechanisms of a fear society are exported. This is because fear societies need both internal and external enemies to justify their ruthless repression; hence fear societies are always a danger to themselves and others.

Sharansky believes that promoting peace and stability in the world is equivalent to spreading freedom. Societies based on fear cannot compete with free societies, nor can they sustain themselves once their own citizens have acquired a taste for freedom. This is universally true; it applies to the fear societies of the Arab Middle East every bit as much as it did to the Soviet Union.

About the Author

Natan Sharansky is a former Soviet dissident who has devoted his life to the cause of freedom and democracy. Sharansky spent nine years in a Soviet prison during the Cold War and was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his courageous struggle against tyranny behind the Iron Curtain. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Sharansky has been an author, human rights activist, and a politician in Israel, serving in numerous positions including deputy prime minister. He is the author of the acclaimed memoir Fear No Evil and frequently writes opinion pieces and appears on television to promote the idea that democracy and human rights are inseparable.

Summary of The Case for Democracy (Natan Sharansky (with Ron Dermer))

From the “Evil Empire” to Perestroika to Freedom

In 1986, Natan Sharansky became the first political prisoner released by Mikhail Gorbachev. Sharansky’s only “crime” was fighting for human rights and criticizing the Soviet system, yet he was held for nine years in a KGB prison. Much of the credit for Sharansky’s release was due to the efforts of President Ronald Reagan, a leader who had the moral clarity to recognize the threat a “fear society” like the Soviet Union posed to its own citizens and to the West.