num_pages: 312
description: • New paperback edition highlights Sharansky’s relationship with evangelicals. • An established best seller now available to CBA audiences. • Built-in “pro Israel” community will embrace Sharansky and his shared ideals. • Special introduction for Christian audiences written by Sharansky. Sharansky, the famous Soviet dissident who spent a decade in gulags, has authored his vision for defeating terrorists launching a flood of democratic initiatives, especially in totalitarian regimes. This book, which gained the attention of President Bush and his administration, outlines Sharansky’s strategies — based on personal experience — for making the world a safer place. Sharansky explains that the “public square test,” which states that an individual knows he is free if he can go to his city’s public square and say whatever he wants, is the bedrock Western right that can find traction in dictatorships. Christian audiences will appreciate Sharansky’s discussions of life in Israel, and his thesis here is critical to understanding and overcoming this generation’s enemies.
language: English
title: The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror
titlecomplete: The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror
genres: History, International Relations, Society, Philosophy, Russia, Politics, Cultural, Political Science, Israel, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 674
publisher: Balfour Books