When a totalitarian group seizes power, one of the first institutions it creates is a secret political police. Since the birth of modern totalitarianism, in country after country, secret political police have been the predominant instruments of power, used to consolidate power, neutralize the opposition, and erect a one-party state. Yet, when these same totalitarian regimes have liberalized or collapsed, the secret political police have often managed to survive and even remain relevant. Dismantling Tyranny: Transitioning Beyond Totalitarian Regimes provides a groundbreaking exploration of this survival tendency in seven formerly communist regimes in the former Soviet Union and Latin America - and the lessons these transformations hold for future democratic revolutions. But Dismantling Tyranny is also much more: it is a guidebook designed to empower, inform, and guide future transitions toward democracy for those political leaders with the initiative, and courage, to embark upon such a visionary path. Published in cooperation with the American Foreign Policy Council.

Dismantling Tyranny: Transitioning Beyond Totalitarian Regimes

Politics & Social Sciences

Berman, Ilan

Waller, J. Michael

Politics & Government

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

When a totalitarian group seizes power, one of the first institutions it creates is a secret political police. Since the birth of modern totalitarianism, in country after country, secret political police have been the predominant instruments of power, used to consolidate power, neutralize the opposition, and erect a one-party state. Yet, when these same totalitarian regimes have liberalized or collapsed, the secret political police have often managed to survive and even remain relevant. Dismantling Tyranny: Transitioning Beyond Totalitarian Regimes provides a groundbreaking exploration of this survival tendency in seven formerly communist regimes in the former Soviet Union and Latin America - and the lessons these transformations hold for future democratic revolutions. But Dismantling Tyranny is also much more: it is a guidebook designed to empower, inform, and guide future transitions toward democracy for those political leaders with the initiative, and courage, to embark upon such a visionary path. Published in cooperation with the American Foreign Policy Council.

Criminal Law

Secret Empire: The Kgb In Russia Today

History

Americas

Westview Press

Secret Empire: The KGB In Russia Today by Waller, J. Michael

In this vital book, thirteen experts in public diplomacy, counterpropaganda and political warfare lay out the components of what the U.S. and its allies need to win the war of ideas around the world. Strategic influence is much more than strategic communication. Communicating with others has somehow become a goal in itself, when the real issue is influence - to modify the perceptions, attitudes, and most of all, the behavior of people, movements and governments around the world. This book is designed for the diplomat, intelligence officer, warfighter and policymaker.

Strategic Influence: Public Diplomacy, Counterpropaganda, and Political Warfare

Institute of World Politics Press

This study is the result of months of analysis, discussion and drafting by a group of top security policy experts concerned with the preeminent totalitarian threat of our time: the legal-political-military doctrine known within Islam as "shariah." It is designed to provide a comprehensive and articulate "second opinion" on the official characterizations and assessments of this threat as put forth by the United States government. The authors, under the sponsorship of the Center for Security Policy, have modeled this work on an earlier "exercise in competitive analysis" which came to be known as the "Team B" Report. The present Team B II report is based entirely on unclassified, readily available sources. As with the original Team B analysis, however, this study challenges the assumptions underpinning the official line in the conflict with today's totalitarian threat, which is currently euphemistically described as "violent extremism," and the policies of co-existence, accommodation and submission that are rooted in those assumptions.

Shariah: The Threat To America: An Exercise In Competitive Analysis (Report of Team B II)

West, Diana

Woolsey, R. James

Guandolo, John

Boykin, William J

Soyster, Harry Edward

COOPER, Henry

Coughlin, Stephen C.

Del Rosso, Michael

Gaffney Jr., Frank J.

Lopez, Clare M.

McCarthy, Andrew C.

Poole, Patrick

Schmitz, Joseph E.

Trento, Tom

Center for Security Policy

A collection of some of the most important political warfare documents relating to the founding of the United States of America. This book is specifically designed to accompany the nation's premier graduate-level course on the history of political warfare, taught at The Institute of World Politics in Washington.

Founding Political Warfare Documents of the United States

SIS/Waller

Big Intel: How the CIA and FBI Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains

Regnery

Big Intel: How the CIA Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains

Impact Audio

Unmasking Antifa: Five Perspectives on a Growing Threat

Nadales, Gabriel

Smith, Erin

Vadum, Matthew

Shideler, Kyle

Independently published

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