The New Revolution: A Historic Review of Civil Conflict - Softcover

Williams, Richard C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1499082142 ISBN 13: 9781499082142

Publisher: XLIBRIS, 2014

Synopsis

The material has been assembled and updated from my doctoral thesis, Social Causes of Violent Revolution in Eighty-Six Nations Since World War II, written in 1978 (found on the dissertation shelves of Norlin Library, University of Colorado, Boulder). In this current update, I have enlarged the scope of the project to include nonviolent revolutions as well. South Africa has been the obvious model here and suggests that the most successful revolutions in the world have indeed been nonviolent. There have been a few others as well in the latter part of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Examining the causes and developments preceding these revolutions and comparing them with political and social conditions today has convinced me that our own country may be facing some kind of radical social upheaval during the coming century. By examining more closely the causes of such upheavals in the world during the 20th century, I would hope we could then see how closely current conditions match those early ones. Remember that Thomas Jefferson said that this country would need a new revolution every twenty years. (God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion, Thomas Jefferson wrote to William Stephons Smith in Paris on November 13, 1787).

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About the Author

Richard C. Williams, Ph.D. socio-economist, is founder and past president of Social and Economic Analysis Corporation. In this capacity he conducted and supervised extensive research on the impacts of military spending on the local economic and social scene, including a study of alternate futures for the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant. He has taught at Adelphi University (Long Island Campus), New York Institute of Technology, and University of Colorado. He assisted in the establishment of the Conflict Peace Studies Program at Iliff School of Theology and taught in that program for three years. He is currently serving on the affiliate faculty in the College of Professional Studies at Regis University, Denver, Colorado, where he teaches students both in the Master of Arts and the Master in Non-Profit Management programs. He teaches a variety of courses, including Global Justice, Impacts of Free Trade Agreements, History of Social Theory, Corporate Responsibility, Research Methods, Advanced Statistics, and Advanced Math with application to the social sciences. He was instrumental in the founding of Christian Peacemaker Teams, participating with his wife, Gretchen, and leading peace delegations to Vieques Island, Puerto Rico; Bogota and North-Central Colombia; Israel-Palestine; Eastern Tennessee; and Denver-Boulder, Colorado; to mention only a few. Dr. Williams' publications include articles in refereed professional journals and assorted chapters in books on topics in socioeconomics. His most recent books are The Cooperative Movement: Globalization from Below, published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd, 2007, in the UK; The Cooperative Solution: Toward a Just Economy, 2011, University Press; and his own memoirs, Remember When? Reflections of a Wandering Mid- American, 2013, Xlibris.

Edition details

• Publisher: XLIBRIS
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1499082142
• ISBN 13: 9781499082142
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 266