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Civil Resistance and Power Politics : the experience of non-violent action from Gandhi to the present

Civil Resistance and Power Politics, 2011
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ISBN 978-0-19-969145-6
Beteiligte Personen Roberts, Adam [Ed.] Wikipedia
Beteiligte Personen Ash, Timothy Garton [Ed.] Wikipedia
Systematik FB - Friedensbewegung
Schlagworte power (social sciences), history, nonviolence, 20th century, government, resistance to
Verlag Oxford Univ. Press
Ort Oxford
Jahr 2011
Umfang 407 p.
Altersbeschränkung keine
Sprache englisch
Verfasserangabe Adam Roberts ; Timothy Garton Ash
Illustrationsang Ill.
Annotation Summary:
This widely-praised book identified peaceful struggle as a key phenomenon in international politics a year before the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt confirmed its central argument. Civil resistance--non-violent action against such challenges as dictatorial rule, racial discrimination and foreign military occupation--is a significant but inadequately understood feature of world politics. Especially through the peaceful revolutions of 1989, and the developments in the Arab world since December 2010, it has helped to shape the world we live in. Civil Resistance and Power Politicscovers most of the leading cases, including the actions master-minded by Gandhi, the US civil rights struggle in the 1960s, the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979, the 'people power' revolt in the Philippines in the 1980s, the campaigns against apartheid in South Africa, the various movements contributing to the collapse of the Soviet Bloc in 1989-91, and, in this century, the 'colour revolutions' in Georgia and Ukraine. The chapters, written by leading experts, are richly descriptive and analytically rigorous. This book addresses the complex interrelationship between civil resistance and other dimensions of power. It explores the question of whether civil resistance should be seen as potentially replacing violence completely, or as a phenomenon that operates in conjunction with, and modification of, power politics. It looks at cases where campaigns were repressed, including China in 1989 and Burma in 2007. It notes that in several instances, including Northern Ireland, Kosovo and Georgia, civil resistance movements were followed by the outbreak of armed conflict. It also includes a chapter with new material from Russian archives showing how the Soviet leadership responded to civil resistance, and a comprehensive bibliographical essay. Illustrated throughout with a remarkable selection of photographs, this uniquely wide-ranging and path-breaking study is written in an accessible style and is intended for the general reader as well as for students of Modern History, Politics, Sociology and International Relations.

Table of Contents:
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Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
List of Initial Questions
1Civil Resistance and Power Politics Adam Roberts
2People Power and Protest: The Literature on Civil Resistance in Historical Context April Carter
3Gandhi and Civil Resistance in India, 1917-47: Key Issues Judith Brown
4The US Civil Rights Movement: Power from Below and Above, 1945-70 Doug McAdam
5The Interplay of Non-violent and Violent Action in Northern Ireland, 1967-72 Richard English
6The Dialectics of Empire: Soviet Leaders and the Challenge of Civil Resistance in East-Central Europe, 1968-91 Mark Kramer
7Civil Resistance in Czechoslovakia: From Soviet Invasion to 'Velvet Revolution', 1968-89 Kieran Williams
8Towards 'Self-Limiting Revolution': Poland, 1970-89 Aleksander Smolar
9Portugal: 'The Revolution of the Carnations', 1974-75 Kenneth Maxwell
10Mass Protests in the Iranian Revolution, 1977-79 Ervand Abrahamian
11'People Power' in the Philippines, 1983-86 Amado Mendoza
12Political Mass Mobilization against Authoritarian Rule: Pinochet's Chile, 1983-88 Carlos Huneeus
13The Interplay of Non-violent and Violent Action in the Movement against Apartheid in South Africa, 1983-94 Tom Lodge
14The Intersection of Ethnic Nationalism and People Power Tactics in the Baltic States, 1987-91 Mark R. Beissinger
15The 1989 Demonstrations in Tiananmen Square and Beyond: Echoes of Gandhi Merle Goldman
16Civil Resistance and Civil Society: Lessons from the Collapse of the German Democratic Republic in 1989 Charles S. Maier
17The Limits of Prudence: Civil Resistance in Kosovo, 1990-98 Howard Clark
18Civil Society versus Slobodan Milosevic: Serbia, 1991-2000 Ivan Vejvoda
19Georgia's 'Rose Revolution' of 2003: A Forceful Peace Stephen Jones
20Ukraine's 'Orange Revolution' of 2004: The Paradoxes of Negotiation Andrew Wilson
21The Moment of the Monks: Burma, 2007 Christina Fink
22A Century of Civil Resistance: Some Lessons and Questions Timothy Garton Ash"
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