Civil resistance and power politics : the experience of non-violent action from Gandhi to the present /

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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, it has helped to shape the world we li...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Roberts, Adam, 1940-, Garton Ash, Timothy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Temas:
Government, Resistance to.
Nonviolence.
Résistance au gouvernement.
Non-violence.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Violence in Society.
Government, Resistance to
Nonviolence
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Adam Roberts
  • People power and protest : the literature on civil resistance in historical context / April Carter
  • Gandhi and civil resistance in India, 1917-47 : key issues / Judith M. Brown
  • The US civil rights movement : power from below and above, 1945-70 / Doug McAdam
  • The interplay of non-violent and violent action in Northern Ireland, 1967-72 / Richard English
  • The dialectics of empire : Soviet leaders and the challenge of civil resistance in East-Central Europe, 1968-91 / Mark Kramer
  • Civil resistance in Czechoslovakia : from Soviet invasion to 'Velvet Revolution', 1968-89 / Kieran Williams
  • Towards 'self-limiting revolution' : Poland, 1970-89 / Aleksander Smolar
  • Portugal : 'the Revolution of the Carnations', 1974-75 / Kenneth Maxwell
  • Mass protests in the Iranian Revolution, 1977-79 / Ervand Abrahamian
  • 'People power' in the Philippines, 1983-86 / Amado Mendoza Jr.
  • Political mass mobilization against authoritarian rule : Pinochet's Chile, 1983-88 / Carlos Huneeus
  • The interplay of non-violent and violent action in the movement against apartheid in South Africa, 1983-94 / Tom Lodge
  • The intersection of ethnic nationalism and people power tactics in the Baltic States, 1987-91 / Mark R. Beissinger
  • The 1989 demonstrations in Tiananmen Square and beyond : echoes of Gandhi / Merle Goldman
  • Civil resistance and civil society : lessons from the collapse of the German Democratic Republic in 1989 / Charles S. Maier
  • The limits of prudence : civil resistance in Kosovo, 1990-98 / Howard Clark
  • Civil society versus Slobodan Milošević : Serbia, 1991-2000 / Ivan Vejvoda
  • Georgia's 'Rose Revolution' of 2003 : enforcing peaceful change / Stephen Jones
  • Ukraine's 'Orange Revolution' of 2004 : the parad-xes of negotiation / Andrew Wilson
  • The moment of the monks : Burma, 2007 / Christina Fink
  • A century of civil resistance : some lessons and questions / Timothy Garton Ash.

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