Civil resistance and power politics
Subtitle: the experience of non-violent action from Gandhi to the present
By: edited by Adam Roberts, Timothy Garton Ash
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9780199552016
Other titles: Civil resistance & power politics; Non-violent action from Gandhi to the present
Description: "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 campaignswere 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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Adam Roberts; title: People power and protest : the literature on civil resistance in historical context / April Carter; title: Gandhi and civil resistance in India, 1917-47 : key issues / Judith M. Brown; title: The US civil rights movement : power from below and above, 1945-70 / Doug McAdam; title: The interplay of non-violent and violent action in Northern Ireland, 1967-72 / Richard English; title: The dialectics of empire : Soviet leaders and the challenge of civil resistance in East-Central Europe, 1968-91 / Mark Kramer; title: Civil resistance in Czechoslovakia : from Soviet invasion to 'Velvet Revolution', 1968-89 / Kieran Williams; title: Towards 'self-limiting revolution' : Poland, 1970-89 / Aleksander Smolar; title: Portugal : 'the Revolution of the Carnations', 1974-75 / Kenneth Maxwell; title: Mass protests in the Iranian Revolution, 1977-79 / Ervand Abrahamian; title: 'People power' in the Philippines, 1983-86 / Amado Mendoza Jr.; title: Political mass mobilization against authoritarian rule : Pinochet's Chile, 1983-88 / Carlos Huneeus; title: The interplay of non-violent and violent action in the movement against apartheid in South Africa, 1983-94 / Tom Lodge; title: The intersection of ethnic nationalism and people power tactics in the Baltic States, 1987-91 / Mark R. Beissinger; title: The 1989 demonstrations in Tiananmen Square and beyond : echoes of Gandhi / Merle Goldman; title: Civil resistance and civil society : lessons from the collapse of the German Democratic Republic in 1989 / Charles S. Maier; title: The limits of prudence : civil resistance in Kosovo, 1990-98 / Howard Clark; title: Civil society versus Slobodan Milošević : Serbia, 1991-2000 / Ivan Vejvoda; title: Georgia's 'Rose Revolution' of 2003 : enforcing peaceful change / Stephen Jones; title: Ukraine's 'Orange Revolution' of 2004 : the parad-xes of negotiation / Andrew Wilson; title: The moment of the monks : Burma, 2007 / Christina Fink; title: A century of civil resistance : some lessons and questions / Timothy Garton Ash.