Why civil resistance works : the strategic logic of nonviolent conflict / Erica Chenoweth & Maria J. Stephan.
2011
JC328.3 .C474 2011
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Title
Why civil resistance works : the strategic logic of nonviolent conflict / Erica Chenoweth & Maria J. Stephan.
ISBN
0231527489 (electronic bk.)
9780231527484 (electronic bk.)
1283261073
9781283261074
9780231156820 (alk. paper)
0231156820 (alk. paper)
9786613261076
6613261076
9780231527484 (electronic bk.)
1283261073
9781283261074
9780231156820 (alk. paper)
0231156820 (alk. paper)
9786613261076
6613261076
Published
New York : Columbia University Press, [2011]
Copyright
©2011
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 296 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
JC328.3 .C474 2011
System Control No.
(OCoLC)752263464
Summary
For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of nonviolent noncooperation, these efforts help separate regimes from their main sources of power and produce remarkable results, even in Iran, Burma, the Philippines, and the Palestinian Territories. Combining statistical analysis with case studies of specific countries and territories, Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan detail the factors enabling such campaigns to succeed and, sometimes, causing them to fail. They find that nonviolent resistance presents fewer obstacles to moral and physical involvement and commitment, and that higher levels of participation contribute to enhanced resilience, greater opportunities for tactical innovation and civic disruption (and therefore less incentive for a regime to maintain its status quo), and shifts in loyalty among opponents' erstwhile supporters, including members of the military establishment. Chenoweth and Stephan conclude that successful nonviolent resistance ushers in more durable and internally peaceful democracies, which are less likely to regress into civil war. Presenting a rich, evidentiary argument, they originally and systematically compare violent and nonviolent outcomes in different historical periods and geographical contexts, debunking the myth that violence occurs because of structural and environmental factors and that it is necessary to achieve certain political goals. Instead, the authors discover, violent insurgency is rarely justifiable on strategic grounds.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-278) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
pt. I. Why civil resistance works. The success of nonviolent resistance campaigns
The primacy of participation in nonviolent resistance
Exploring alternative explanations for the success of civil resistance
pt. II. Case studies. The Iranian revolution, 1977-1979
The first Palestinian intifada, 1987-1992
The Philippine people power movement, 1983-1986
Why civil resistance sometimes fails: the Burmese uprising, 1988-1990
pt. III. The implications of civil resistance. After the campaign: the consequences of violent and nonviolent resistance.
The primacy of participation in nonviolent resistance
Exploring alternative explanations for the success of civil resistance
pt. II. Case studies. The Iranian revolution, 1977-1979
The first Palestinian intifada, 1987-1992
The Philippine people power movement, 1983-1986
Why civil resistance sometimes fails: the Burmese uprising, 1988-1990
pt. III. The implications of civil resistance. After the campaign: the consequences of violent and nonviolent resistance.
Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost, viewed July 6, 2020).
Added Author
Stephan, Maria J., author.
Series
Columbia studies in terrorism and irregular warfare.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Chenoweth, Erica, 1980- Why civil resistance works. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2011
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