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, 5th-6th 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
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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