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EBOOK Civil Resistance and Power Politics:The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Pr
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191619175
EAN: 71E86071EB
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Stron: 432
Data wydania: 2009
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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        worldsince 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 US civil rights struggle in the 1960s, the        Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979, the 'people power' revolt in the Philippines in        the 1980s, the campaigns against apartheid in South Africa, the various movements        contributing to the collapse of the Soviet Bloc in 1989-91, and, in this century,        the 'colour revolutions' in Georgia and Ukraine. The chapters, written byleading        experts, are richly descriptive and analytically rigorous.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 campaigns were        repressed, including China in 1989 and Burma in 2007. It notes that in several        instances, including Northern Ireland, Kosovo and, Georgia, civilresistance        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.Illustrated        throughout with a remarkable selection of photographs, this uniquely wide-ranging        and path-breaking study is written in an accessible style and is intended for the        general reader as well as for students of Modern History, Politics, Sociology, and        International Relations.

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