Civilian Based Defense in a New Era (Monograph)

By Gene Sharp

Subjects: peaceful, nonviolence, non-violent, society, political science, civilian, revolution, defense

Description: In the wake of the peaceful revolutions of Eastern Europe in 1989, Johan Holst outlines the key criteria and parameters of a future security order in Europe and explores the potential of nonviolent civilian-based defense as a complement to traditional military forms of defense. Mr. Holst, who died in 1994, was the foreign minister of Norway, and former director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs in Oslo.