Effecting robust and durable behavioral change and building powerful organizations <I>ex nihilo</I>

Papers of Professor Jeffrey Race
Relating to Effecting Robust and Durable Behavioral Change
and to Building Powerful Organizations ex nihilo

What Really Works: The rise from nothing of the Viet Cong 1955-1965		Short version: "How They Won" Asian Survey 1970 Expanded: "Toward an Exchange Theory of Revolution" 1974 Elaborated: Chapters 4 and 7 of War Comes to Long An (available in part at link in Annotated List, below)
What Really Works: The rise from nothing of powerful states in history		Lycurgus and the rise of Sparta, circa 9th Century BCE Mohammad and the rise of Islam, 7th Century CE Lee Kwan Yew and the formation of the Republic of Singapore The commonalities in their successful strategies are examined in What Really Works: Lessons from Today and from History
Rise and Decay: The Case of the United States of America		"Why Is It So Hard to Be a City on a Hill?" Pages 9-10 of PDF pagination, 7-8 of text pagination "The Vietnam War as an Early Warning"
Supplementary material in Annotated List of Readings (some overlap with above) This material served as the template for a two-day seminar presented in 2019 to military and civil leaders of the ethnic resistance forces in Burma, facing a challenge similar to that of the Viet Cong in 1955.

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