Unarmed Insurrections by Kurt Schock

Unarmed Insurrections by Kurt Schock

Pinpoints reasons for successes and failures of nonviolent protest movements 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 is associate professor of sociology at Rutgers University and a member of the graduate faculty in global affairs.

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ISBN 13	9780816641932
ISBN 10	0816641935
Titel	Unarmed Insurrections
Autor	Kurt Schock
Serie	Social Movements Protest And Contention
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	University of Minnesota Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2004-11-15
Seitenanzahl	256
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