Breaking the real axis of evil : how to oust the world's last dictators by 2025 / Mark Palmer.

Maps on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [322]-334) and index.

1. The Real Axis of Evil -- The Future with Dictators -- A Democratic World -- 2. Ousting the Last Forty-Five -- Power in the Modern World -- Sanction Dictators, Not Peoples -- 3. Communities of Democracies and Democrats -- The New Architecture of International Power -- Freedom Caucuses -- Global Security Alliance and Coalitions of the Willing -- International Criminal Tribunals -- International Parliamentary Cooperation -- Monarchs for Democracy -- The Nongovernmental Dimension -- The Stakes -- 4. Opening Closed Societies -- Presidential Leadership -- Outsiders' Toolbox for Promotion Democracy in Dictatorships -- 5. Democracy Development Plans and Action Programs -- Stages of Democratic Growth -- Who Will Conduct: The International Dictatorship-to-Democracy Center -- Why Engage? -- 6. Embassies as Freedom Houses, Ambassadors as Freedom Fighters -- Extraordinary Opportunity for Creativity -- Dealing Directly with Dictators -- Ambassadors in Action -- 7. The Use of Nonviolent Force -- Two-Stage Campaigns to Oust Dictators -- People Power: Two Battlegrounds -- App. The Methods of Nonviolent Action -- 8. The Forty-Five Least Wanted -- Personalistic Dictatorships -- Monarch Dictators -- Military Dictators -- Communist Dictators -- Dominant-Party Dictators -- Theocratic Dictator: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran -- 9. Out by 2025 -- Asia -- The "Stans," the Middle East, and North Africa: The Heart of Democratic Darkness -- Sub-Saharan Africa -- The Last Dictators in Europe and the Americas.

"In Breaking the Real Axis of Evil, Ambassador Mark Palmer has the gumption to argue what diplomats and political leaders dare not speak: that global peace will not be achieved until democracies replace the world's remaining dictatorships. Drawing on more than twenty-five years of extensive diplomatic experience, Ambassador Palmer asks us to embrace a bold vision of a world made safe by democracy. This is the story of the last forty-five dictators, the strategies and tactics necessary to oust them, and the need to empower the people of every nation to control their own destinies."--BOOK JACKET.