Description
Book SynopsisFrom 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 Contents1 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
