Natan Sharansky want a glimpse of how I think about foreign policy, read Natan Sharansky's book, "The Case for Democracy". ... For government, particularly – for opinion makers, I would put it on your recommended reading list. It's short and it's good. This guy is a heroic figure, as you know. It's a great book. His book "Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy", is a defense of the value of national and religious identity in building democracy. Sharansky has argued that there can never be peace between Israel and the Palestinians until there is "the building of real democratic institutions
Predictions of the dissolution of the Soviet Union Soviet authorities were skeptical. Natan Sharansky explained that "in 1984 KGB officials, on coming to me in prison" when Amalrik's prediction was mentioned, "laughed at this prediction. Amalrik is long dead, they said, but we are still very much present." Historian Marian Kamil Dziewanowski "gave a lecture titled 'Death of the Soviet Regime' at the Russian Research Center at Harvard University. The same lecture was delivered at Cambridge University in England in 1971 and 1979. The text of the lecture (titled 'Death of the Soviet Regime: a Study in American Sovietology, by a Historian') was published in "Studies in Soviet