Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present
Adam Roberts
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Description for Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present
Paperback. From Gandhi to Martin Luther King, Tiananmen Square to the Orange Revolution, non-violent action against the forces of oppression has played a key role in world history. This book tells the compelling story of each of the major campaigns of civil resistance that have shaped our world over the last century. Editor(s): Roberts, Adam; Ash, Timothy Garton. Num Pages: 448 pages, Over 70 photographs. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBLW; JPS; JPWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 232 x 22. Weight in Grams: 670.
This widely-praised book identified peaceful struggle as a key phenomenon in international politics a year before the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt confirmed its central argument. Civil resistance - non-violent action against such challenges as dictatorial rule, racial discrimination and foreign military occupation - is a significant but inadequately understood feature of world politics. Especially through the peaceful revolutions of 1989, and the developments in the Arab world since December 2010, it has helped to shape the world we live in. Civil Resistance and Power Politics covers most of the leading cases, including the actions master-minded by Gandhi, the ... Read more
This widely-praised book identified peaceful struggle as a key phenomenon in international politics a year before the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt confirmed its central argument. Civil resistance - non-violent action against such challenges as dictatorial rule, racial discrimination and foreign military occupation - is a significant but inadequately understood feature of world politics. Especially through the peaceful revolutions of 1989, and the developments in the Arab world since December 2010, it has helped to shape the world we live in. Civil Resistance and Power Politics covers most of the leading cases, including the actions master-minded by Gandhi, the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
669g
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199691456
SKU
V9780199691456
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About Adam Roberts
Professor Sir Adam Roberts is Senior Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University, and Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. His main academic interests are in the fields of international security, international organizations, and international law (including the laws of war). He has also worked extensively on the role of civil resistance against dictatorial regimes and foreign ... Read more
Reviews for Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present
a highly informative compilation of differing quests for political, economic, and social change over the past half-century ... The great value of Civil Resistance and Power Politics is to provide relatively succinct accounts of these diverse events in such a way as to underline both their differences and their similarities.
Brian Urquhart, New York Review of Books
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