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26%OFFErica Chenoweth - Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict - 9780231156837 - V9780231156837
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Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict

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Description for Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict Paperback. Series: Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare. Num Pages: 320 pages, 11 figures, 19 tables. BIC Classification: JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 446. The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict. Series: Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare. 320 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JPWF. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 24. Weight: 426.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare
Condition
New
Weight
443g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231156837
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V9780231156837
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About Erica Chenoweth
Erica Chenoweth is an assistant professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and an Associate Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute of Oslo. Previously she taught at Wesleyan University and held fellowships at Harvard, Stanford, and the University of California at Berkeley. Maria J. Stephan is a strategic planner with the ... Read more

Reviews for Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
This is the first major scholarly book to make a well-supported argument that, contrary to what many people believe, nonviolent resistance is more effective than armed resistance in overthrowing regimes, an advantage that is maintained even when the target is not democratic.
Robert Jervis, Columbia University Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan offer a fresh, lively, and penetrating analysis ... Read more

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