Revolutionary and Dissident Movements of the World - Hardcover

9780954381127: Revolutionary and Dissident Movements of the World

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0954381122 ISBN 13: 9780954381127

Publisher: John Harper Pub, 2004

This is the fourth edition of Revolutionary and Dissident Movements and the first to appear since 1991. The book's primary focus remains the history and contemporary activities of organizations that seek to challenge by extra-legal means, most commonly violent, the stability of the state. Its coverage includes movements seeking autonomy or secession, groups of the extreme left or right acting outside the constitutional framework, proscribed parties, and governments-in-exile, as well as terrorist organizations with a pan-national agenda.
Revolutionary and Dissident Movements includes entries on every independent state in the world, compiled by a team of some 80 specialist contributors. It demonstrates the impact, country by country, of global currents, most notably the rise of Islamist movements and the challenge they pose both to the West and to governments in Islamic states. It also illustrates that, in the world as a whole, by far the greatest toll of human life arises from essentially local conflicts between secessionist movements, often ethnically based, and central authorities, with numerous such movements exercising de facto control over significant territory and populations.
This book will be of value to political researchers, diplomats and government officials, journalists, information professionals and others needing digested, accessible and reliable data on this major aspect of the current international scene.

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Review:

"This remarkable book, with its 82 learned and expert contributors from many lands... is essential stock for all academic, research and reference libraries, along with its companion Political Parties of the World" Reference Reviews, vol. 18 no. 8 (2004); "This compendium is more than just an alphabetical roll-call of revolutionary organizations: it places them in a geographical and political context and represents a well-researched reference tool for a topic that seems unlikely to dwindle in importance" International Affairs, vol. 80 no. 4, July 2004

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