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- Unarmed Insurrections: People Power Movements In Nondemocracies
- Book
- 2004
- Published by: University of Minnesota Press
- Series: Social Movements, Protest and Contention
summary
In the last two decades of the twentieth century, a wave of “people power” movements erupted throughout the nondemocratic world. In South Africa, the Philippines, Nepal, Thailand, Burma (Myanmar), China, and elsewhere, mass protest demonstrations, strikes, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other nonviolent actions were brought to bear on a rigid political status quo.
Kurt Schock compares the successes of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, the people power movement in the Philippines, the pro-democracy movement in Nepal, and the antimilitary movement in Thailand with the failures of the pro-democracy movement in China and the anti-regime challenge in Burma. Schock develops a synthetic framework that allows him to identify which characteristics increase the resilience of a challenge to state repression, and which aspects of a state’s relations can be exploited by such a challenge.
By looking at how these methods of protest promoted regime change in some countries but not in others, this book provides rare insight into the often overlooked and little understood power of nonviolent action.
Kurt Schock compares the successes of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, the people power movement in the Philippines, the pro-democracy movement in Nepal, and the antimilitary movement in Thailand with the failures of the pro-democracy movement in China and the anti-regime challenge in Burma. Schock develops a synthetic framework that allows him to identify which characteristics increase the resilience of a challenge to state repression, and which aspects of a state’s relations can be exploited by such a challenge.
By looking at how these methods of protest promoted regime change in some countries but not in others, this book provides rare insight into the often overlooked and little understood power of nonviolent action.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Abbreviations
- pp. xi-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. xv-xxvi
- 6. Trajectories of Unarmed Insurrections
- pp. 142-172
- Works Cited
- pp. 185-210
Additional Information
ISBN
9780816695072
Related ISBN(s)
9780816641932
MARC Record
OCLC
86226336
Pages
256
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No