Description: Nonviolent Revolutions : Civil Resistance in the Late 20th Century, Paperback by Nepstad, Sharon Erickson, ISBN 0199778213, ISBN-13 9780199778218, Brand New, Free P&P in the UK In the spring of 1989, Chinese workers and students captured global attention as they occupied Tiananmen Square, demanded political change, and were tragically suppressed by the Chinese army. Months later, East German civilians rose up nonviolently, brought down the Berlin Wall, and dismantled
their regime. Although both movements used tactics of civil resistance, their outcomes were different. Why?
In Nonviolent Revolutions, Sharon Erickson Nepstad examines these and other uprisings in Panama, Chile, Kenya, and the Philippines. Taking a comparative approach that includes both successful and failed cases of nonviolent resistance, Nepstad analyzes the effects of movements strategies along with
the counter-strategies regimes developed to retain power. She shows that a significant influence on revolutionary outcomes is security force defections, and explores the reasons why soldiers defect or remain loyal and the conditions that increase the likelihood of mutiny. She then examines the
impact of international sanctions, finding that they can at times harm movements by generating new allies for authoritarian leaders or by shifting the locus of power from local civil resisters to international actors.
Nonviolent Revolutions offers essential insights into the challenges that civil resisters face and elucidates why some of these movements failed. With a recent surge of popular uprisings across the Middle East, this book provides a valuable new understanding of the dynamics and potency of civil
resistance and nonviolent revolt.
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Book Title: Nonviolent Revolutions : Civil Resistance in the Late 20th Centur
Number of Pages: 200 Pages
Publication Name: Nonviolent Revolutions: Civil Resistance in the Late 20th Century
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Item Height: 235 mm
Subject: Archaeology, Government, Sociology
Publication Year: 2011
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 274 g
Subject Area: Political Science
Author: Sharon Erickson Nepstad
Item Width: 167 mm
Series: Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics
Format: Paperback
