Civil resistance and power politics
| Titel: | Civil resistance and power politics : the experience of non-violent action from Gandhi to the present / ed. by Adam Roberts ... |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
| Umfang: | XXI, 407 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 24cm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 0199552010 ; 9780199552016 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- List of Initial Questions
- 1
- Civil Resistance and Power Politics
- 2
- People Power and Protest: The Literature on Civil Resistance in Historical Context
- 3
- Gandhi and Civil Resistance in India, 1917-47: Key Issues
- 4
- The US Civil Rights Movement: Power from Below and Above, 1945-70
- 5
- The Interplay of Non-violent and Violent Action in Northern Ireland, 1967-72
- 6
- The Dialectics of Empire: Soviet Leaders and the Challenge of Civil Resistance in East-Central Europe, 1968-91
- 7
- Civil Resistance in Czechoslovakia: From Soviet Invasion to 'Velvet Revolution', 1968-89
- 8
- Towards 'Self-Limiting Revolution': Poland, 1970-89
- 9
- Portugal: 'The Revolution of the Carnations', 1974-75
- 10
- Mass Protests in the Iranian Revolution, 1977-79
- 11
- 'People Power' in the Philippines, 1983-86
- 12
- Political Mass Mobilization against Authoritarian Rule: Pinochet's Chile, 1983-88
- 13
- The Interplay of Non-violent and Violent Action in the Movement against Apartheid in South Africa, 1983-94
- 14
- The Intersection of Ethnic Nationalism and People Power Tactics in the Baltic States, 1987-91
- 15
- The 1989 Demonstrations in Tiananmen Square and Beyond: Echoes of Gandhi
- 16
- Civil Resistance and Civil Society: Lessons from the Collapse of the German Democratic Republic in 1989
- 17
- The Limits of Prudence: Civil Resistance in Kosovo, 1990-98
- 18
- Civil Society versus Slobodan Milosevic: Serbia, 1991-2000
- 19
- Georgia's 'Rose Revolution' of 2003: A Forceful Peace
- 20
- Ukraine's 'Orange Revolution' of 2004: The Paradoxes of Negotiation
- 21
- The Moment of the Monks: Burma, 2007
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- A Century of Civil Resistance: Some Lessons and Questions
