Defeating the Authoritarian Threat

Résumé du livre

The security of the United States, democratic allies, and humanity’s future depends significantly on the state of democracy worldwide. Yet over the past seventeen years, authoritarianism has risen globally, while democracy shows alarming decline. This playbook focuses on a key factor that can help reverse both of these trends. Popular civil resistance movements—using tactics such as strikes, boycotts, protests, and many other tactics of noncooperation—are historically one of the most powerful drivers of democracy worldwide. They can play a central role in transforming authoritarian regimes and countering democratic backsliding. We offer recommendations for how the United States and democratic allies can adeptly support and enable these movements.