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Contents
| Preface | vi |
| One | |
| Facing Dictatorsips Realisticly | 1 |
| A continuing problem | 2 |
| Freedom through violence? | 3 |
| Coups, elections, foreign saviors? | 4 |
| Facing the hard truth | 6 |
| Two | |
| The Dangers of Negotiations | 9 |
| Merits and limitations of negotiations | 9 |
| Negotiated surrender? | 10 |
| Power and justice in negotiations | 11 |
| "Agreeable" dictators | 12 |
| What kind of peace? | 13 |
| Reasons for hope | 13 |
| Three | |
| Whence Comes The Power? | 15 |
| The "Monkey Master" fable | 15 |
| Necessary sources of political power | 16 |
| Centers of democratic power | 19 |
| Four | |
| Dictatorships Have Weaknesses | 21 |
| Identifying the Achilles' heel | 21 |
| Weaknesses of dictatorships | 22 |
| Attacking weaknesses of dictatorships | 23 |
| Five | |
| Exercising Power | 25 |
| The workings of nonviolent struggle | 26 |
| Nonviolent weapons and discipline | 29 |
| Openness, secrecy, and high standards | 29 |
| Shifting power relationships | 29 |
| Four mechanisms of change | 30 |
| Democratizing effects of political defiance | 32 |
| Complexity of nonviolent struggle | 33 |
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