A review of The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror, by Natan Sharansky.
About the Author
Vitali Silitski is director of the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies. He has been a visiting fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University (2006–2007), and a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy (2004–2005).
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