Mark R. Thompson

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Thompson, Mark, Democratic Revolutions: Asia and Eastern Europe

Essays discussing people power in the Philippines, East Germany and Serbia, comparing the strengths and weaknesses of opposition, and the regime in China with Eastern Europe in 1989, to explain different outcomes, and reflecting on issues such as ‘female leadership of democratic revolutions in Asia’.

Thompson, Mark, To Shoot or Not to Shoot: Posttotalitarianism in China and Eastern Europe

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Seeks to explain why in 1989 there was a massacre in Beijing but not in Berlin or Prague. Similar discussion in Mark R. Thompson, Democratic Revolutions: Asia and Eastern Europe (A. 1.b. Strategic Theory, Dynamics, Methods and Movements) .

Thompson, Mark; Kuntz, Phillipp, Stolen elections: The Case of the Serbian October

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(see also Mark R. Thompson, Democratic Revolutions: Asia and Eastern Europe (A. 1.b. Strategic Theory, Dynamics, Methods and Movements) , pp. 84-97).

Analysis of Milosevic regime and reasons for the October 2000 uprising, plus brief reflections on links between stolen elections and the democratic revolutions in the Philippines 1986, Madagascar 2002 and Georgia 2003. Useful references to other literature.

Thompson, Mark, The Anti-Marcos Struggle: Personalistic Rule and Democratic Transition in the Philippines