The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War - Softcover

Rummel, R.J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1581826206 ISBN 13: 9781581826203

Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

In The Blue Book of Freedom,"" R. J. Rummel asserts that democracy is the solution to the scourges that face the world. A student of war and peace for more than forty years, he has learned that democratic freedom provides a solution to the evils that have plagued mankind. ""The Blue Book of Freedom"" presents the results of his work in everyday language. The main points are: * Freedom is the way to economic and human security. * Free people never have famine. * Where people are free, political violence is minimal. * The more freedom a people enjoy, the less likely their government will murder them. * The less free the people in any two nations are, the bloodier and more destructive any war between them will be. * To do away with famine, mass impoverishment, democide (the murder by a government of its own people), and war, promote freedom. * Democratic freedom is a method of nonviolence and an antidote to war.""

About this title

Synopsis:

There is an unbridgeable chasm in the world. One the one side are the democratic countries where people are free, secure, and rarely fear poverty, murder, or famine. On the other, there are rapacious individuals and groups masquerading as governments using oppression, violence, poverty and the fear of death to achieve their goal.In the twentieth century alone, more than 270 million people have been murdered by tyrants clinging to power and turning their back on the prosperity and freedom democracy can bring."The Blue Book of Freedom", the result of more than 40 years of research, argues that only through true democracy can we find a solution to the evils that have plagued mankind for centuries.

About the Author:

RUDY J. RUMMEL is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaii. The author of more than thirty books, including The Miracle That Is Freedom (1996) and Power Kills (1997),.he has received the Susan Strange Award of the International Studies Association and the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003 from the Conflict Processes Section of the American Political Science Association.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1581826206
• ISBN 13: 9781581826203
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 190