Regime change
Here are entered works on the overthrow of a government or regime considered illegitimate by an external force (usually military), and its replacement with a new government according to the ideas and/or interests promoted by that force.
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Regime Change in the Yugoslav Successor States: Divergent Paths toward a New Europe (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010), by Mieczysław P. Boduszyński (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Legitimacy of governments- Altered States: Globalization, Sovereignty, and Governance, by Gordon R. Smith and Moises Naim (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)
- Shutting Down the Streets: Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era (New York and London: New York University Press, c2011), by Amory Starr, Luis A. Fernandez, and Christian Scholl (PDF and EPub with commentary at OAPEN)
- Crude Existence: The Politics of Oil in Northern Angola (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2009), by Kristin Reed (Javascript-dependent page images at UC Press)
- Breaking the Grip? Obstacles to Justice for Paramilitary Mafias in Colombia (2008), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (PDF with commentary at hrw.org)
- War Without Quarter: Colombia and International Humanitarian Law, by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML at hrw.org)
- The Political Crisis in Kenya: A Call for Justice and Peaceful Resolution: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, Second Session, February 6, 2008 (Washington: GPO, 2008), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs
- Kenya: Political Violence Spirals (1998), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)
- Political Killings in Kosova/Kosovo, March-June 1999: A Cooperative Report (2000), by American Bar Association and American Association for the Advancement of Science (PDF at hrdag.org)
- Political Violence and Stability in the States of the Northern Persian Gulf (1999), by Daniel Byman and Jerrold Green (PDF files at rand.org)
- Primed and Purposeful: Armed Groups and Human Security Efforts in the Philippines (Geneva: Small Arms Survey, c2010), by Soliman M. Santos and Paz Verdades M. Santos, ed. by Diana Rodriguez, contrib. by Octavio A. Dinampo, Herman Joseph S. Kraft, Artha Kira R. Paredes, and Raymund Jose G. Quilop (PDF with commentary at smallarmssurvey.org)
- War and Genocide in South Sudan (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2021), by Clémence Pinaud (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- Assassinations and Socialism: From a Speech by August Bebel, Delivered at Berlin, November 2, 1898 (New York: New York Labor News Co., n.d.), by August Bebel, trans. by Boris Reinstein (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Pranksters vs. Autocrats: Why Dilemma Actions Advance Nonviolent Activism (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2020), by Srdja Popovic and Sophia A. McClennen (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- Tactics of Christian Resistance (Tyler, TX: Geneva Divinity School Press, 1983), ed. by Gary North (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
- From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States Can Change the World (second edition; c2012), by Duncan Green (PDF with commentary at oxfam.org)
- The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding (2025), by Stephan Lewandowsky, Vera Kempe, Konstantinos Armaos, Ulrike Hahn, Christoph Abels, Susilo Wibisono, Winnifred R. Louis, Sunita Sah, Christina Pagel, Nina Jankowicz, Renee DiResta, Philipp Markolin, Henrik Schoenemann, Ralph Hertwig, Henry Crull, Barry Mauer, Dawn Holford, Ezequiel Lopez-Lopez, and John Cook (PDF with commentary at zenodo.org)
- Pro-Democracy Organizing Against Autocracy in the United States: A Strategic Assessment and Recommendations (Harvard Kennedy School Faculty Research Working Paper RWP22-017; 2022), by Erica Chenoweth and Zoe Marks (PDF at Harvard)
- Civil Disobedience: Conscience, Tactics, and the Law (originally published 1971; this edition Ann Arbor: MPublishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013), by Carl Cohen (page images at HathiTrust)
- How Nonviolent Struggle Works (East Boston, MA: Albert Einstein Institution, c2013), by Gene Sharp (PDF via aeinstein.org)
- Lobbying the Autocrat: The Dynamics of Policy Advocacy in Nondemocracies (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), ed. by Max Grömping and Jessica C. Teets (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
- Nonviolence Speaks: Communicating Against Repression (prepublication version, 2003), by Brian Martin and Wendy Varney (PDF in Australia)
- How Superior Powers Oght to Be Obeyd (reproduced from the 1558 edition, with a bibliographical note; New York: Pub. for the Facsimile Text Society by Columbia University Press, 1931), by Christopher Goodman, contrib. by Charles Howard McIlwain (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Role of Power in Nonviolent Struggle (Boston: Albert Einstein Institution, c1990), by Gene Sharp (PDF via aeinstein.org)
- On Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: Thinking About the Fundamentals (Boston: Albert Einstein Institution, c2004), by Robert L. Helvey (PDF via aeinstein.org)
- The Higher Law, In Its Relations to Civil Government: With Particular Reference to Slavery, and the Fugitive Slave Law (Auburn: Derby and Miller, 1852), by William Hosmer
- A Letter to a Hindu, by Leo Tolstoy, ed. by Mahatma Gandhi
- On Liberty of the Press for Advocating Resistance to Government: Being Part of an Essay Written for the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Sixth Edition, 1821 (New York: Free Speech League, 1913), by James Mill, ed. by Theodore Schroeder (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Russian Revolution (Christchurch: Free Age Press; London: Everett and Co., 1907), by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude, and V. G. Chertkov
- The Christian Martyrs: or, The Conditions of Obedience to the Civil Government, by Jacob Gilbert Forman (page images at MOA)
- T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, by Hakim Bey (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Revolutions in Reverse: Essays on Politics, Violence, Art, and Imagination (2011), by David Graeber (frame-dependent HTML at Minor Compositions and Scribd)
- We Can Change The World: The Real Meaning of Everyday Life (Boston: New Democracy Books, c1991), by David G. Stratman (PDF at newdemocracyworld.org)
- You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows (originally from New Left Notes, June 18, 1969), by Karin Ashley, William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, John Jacobs, Jeff Jones, Gerry Long, Howie Machtinger, Jim Mellen, Terry Robbins, Mark Rudd, and Steve Tappis
- As Ruinas (in Portuguese; Lisbon: Typ. de D. Marques Leaõ, 1822), by C.-F. Volney, trans. by Pedro Cyriaco da Silva
- As Ruinas (in Portuguese; Lisbon: Nova Impressão Silviana, 1834), by C.-F. Volney, trans. by Pedro Cyriaco da Silva
- Essai Historique, Politique, et Moral, sur les Révolutions, Anciennes et Modernes (in French; London: H. Colburn, 1815), by François-René Chateaubriand (page images at HathiTrust)
- General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century, by P.-J. Proudhon, trans. by John Beverley Robinson (HTML at fair-use.org)
- An Historical, Political, and Moral Essay on Revolutions, Ancient and Modern (London: Printed for H. Colburn, 1815), by François-René Chateaubriand (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Kalos: What is to be Done With Our World?, by Alfred De Grazia (HTML at grazian-archive.com)
- Revolution and Counter-Revolution, by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira (HTML with commentary at tfp.org)
- The Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion ("by" John Tanner, a character in Man and Superman; generally published with Maxims for Revolutionists (and usually with Man and Superman)), by Bernard Shaw
- The Ruins: or a Survey of the Revolutions of Empires (Albany: S. Shaw, 1822), by C.-F. Volney
- The Ruins: or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires; and The Law of Nature (New York: Twentieth Century Pub. Co., 1890), by C.-F. Volney, ed. by Peter Eckler, contrib. by Pierre-Antoine-Noël-Bruno Daru (Gutenberg text)
- The Sociology of Revolution, by Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin
- Terrorism and Communism: A Contribution to the Natural History of Revolution (London and Manchester: National Labour Press, c1920), by Karl Kautsky, trans. by W. H. Kerridge
- The Theory of Social Revolutions (1913), by Brooks Adams (Gutenberg text)
- Volney's Ruins: or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires (Boston: C. Gaylord, 1840), by C.-F. Volney, contrib. by Pierre-Antoine-Noël-Bruno Daru
- Volney's Ruins: or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires (Boston: J. P. Mendum, 1869), by C.-F. Volney, contrib. by Pierre-Antoine-Noël-Bruno Daru
- Modern Korea: The Socialist North, Revolutionary Perspectives in the South, and Unification (New York: International Publishers, c1970), by Kim Pyong-Sik, ed. by Victor Perlo, trans. by Takeshi Haga (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Die Lehren des Bürgerkrieges (in German; Hamburg: Verlag der Kommunistischen internationale, 1921), by Sergeĭ Ivanovich Gusev
- Ideales Viejos e Ideales Nuevos; Significación Histórica del Movimiento Maximalista (in Spanish; ca. 1918), by José Ingenieros (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Parliament and Revolution (1919), by James Ramsay MacDonald (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Psychology of Revolution, by Gustave Le Bon (HTML at Virginia)
- The Road Away From Revolution (Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, c1923), by Woodrow Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Trotskyism: Counter-Revolution in Disguise (New York: Workers library publishers, 1935), by Moissaye J. Olgin (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism): A Reply To Karl Kautsky (Workers Party Library v1; New York: Workers Party of America, 1922), by Leon Trotsky, contrib. by Henry Noel Brailsford and Max Bedacht
- The Evolution of Revolution (London: Hyndman Literary Trust, ca. 1921), by H. M. Hyndman (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Programme of the World Revolution (Glasgow: Socialist Labour Press, 1920), by Nikolaĭ Bukharin
- Proletarian Dictatorship and Terrorism (Detroit: Marxian Educational Society, ca. 1921), by Karl Radek, trans. by Patrick Lavin
- The Revolt Against Civilization: The Menace of the Under Man (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1922), by Lothrop Stoddard
- Verfassungsänderung und Verfassungswandlung: Eine Staatsrechtlich-politische Abhandlung (in German; Berlin: O. Haring, 1906), by Georg Jellinek (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- State and Revolution, by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin (HTML at marxists.org)
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