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From Gandhi?s salt march to the US civil rights movement and Occupy Wall Street, nonviolent campaigns to promote democracy, human rights and social justice have long played an important transformative role in local, national and global politics.

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"Civil Resistance Today provides the most comprehensive overview available of the issues and approaches in the burgeoning field of strategic nonviolent action. Ideal for classroom use and for anyone who wants to better understand the history and dynamics of this growing phenomenon of popular mass mobilizations for social justice and political freedom."
Stephen Zunes, University of San Francisco



Table of Contents

1 Conceptualization and Debates

2 Civil Resistance in Theory and Practice

3 Proliferation and Expanding Forms of Civil Resistance

4 How Resistance Happens

5 The State and Civil Resisters

6 Transnational Relations and Intervention

7 Processes, Dynamics & Outcomes

8 Conclusion

Civil Resistance Today

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      Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Published 15 May 2015
      ISBN-13 9780745682662
      978-0745682662
      ISBN-10 0745682669
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      Philosophy Social and political philosophy

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      From Gandhi?s salt march to the US civil rights movement and Occupy Wall Street, nonviolent campaigns to promote democracy, human rights and social justice have long played an important transformative role in local, national and global politics.

      Trade Review

      "Civil Resistance Today provides the most comprehensive overview available of the issues and approaches in the burgeoning field of strategic nonviolent action. Ideal for classroom use and for anyone who wants to better understand the history and dynamics of this growing phenomenon of popular mass mobilizations for social justice and political freedom."
      Stephen Zunes, University of San Francisco



      Table of Contents

      1 Conceptualization and Debates

      2 Civil Resistance in Theory and Practice

      3 Proliferation and Expanding Forms of Civil Resistance

      4 How Resistance Happens

      5 The State and Civil Resisters

      6 Transnational Relations and Intervention

      7 Processes, Dynamics & Outcomes

      8 Conclusion

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