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  • Why Civil Resistance Works

    The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict

    Series series Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare
    For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of nonviolent noncooperation, these efforts help separate regimes from their main ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Civil Resistance

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    A sweeping overview of civil resistance movements around the world that explains what they are, how they work, why they are often effective, and why they can fail. Civil resistance is a method of conflict through which unarmed civilians use a variety of coordinated methods (strikes, protests, demonstrations, boycotts, and many other tactics) to prosecute a conflict without directly harming or ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • The Role of External Support in Nonviolent Campaigns

    Poisoned Chalice or Holy Grail?

    Nonviolent campaigns usually take place in complex domestic and international settings, where support from outside actors can be a double-edged sword. We argue that nonviolent campaigns tend to benefit the most from external assistance that allows them to generate high participation, maintain nonviolent discipline, deter crackdowns, and elicit security force defections. But various forms of ... Read more

    $3.00 USD

  • Audiobook

    Why Civil Resistance Works

    The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict

    Narrated by Traci Odom ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 57 min

    For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of nonviolent noncooperation, these efforts help separate regimes from their main ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nonviolent Resistance and Prevention of Mass Killings During Popular Uprisings

    Series Book 2 - ICNC Special Report Series
    What drives governments to crack down on and kill their own civilians? And how—and to what extent—has nonviolent resistance historically mitigated the likelihood of mass killings? This special report explores the factors associated with mass killings: when governments intentionally kill 1,000 or more civilian noncombatants. We find that these events are surprisingly common, occurring in just under ... Read more

    $3.00 USD

  • Audiobook

    Civil Resistance

    What Everyone Needs to Know

    Narrated by Erica Chenoweth ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 45 min

    Civil resistance is a method of conflict through which unarmed civilians use a variety of coordinated methods (strikes, protests, demonstrations, boycotts, and many other tactics) to prosecute a conflict without directly harming or threatening to harm an opponent. Sometimes called nonviolent resistance, unarmed struggle, or nonviolent action, this form of political action is now a mainstay across ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gandhi's Global Legacy

    Moral Methods and Modern Challenges

    Series series Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion
    While there has been sustained interest in Gandhi’s methods and continued academic inquiry, Gandhi's Global Legacy: Moral Methods and Modern Challenges is unique in bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars who analyze Gandhi’s tactics, moral methods, and philosophical principles, not just in the fields of social and political activism, but in the areas of philosophy, religion, ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • On Revolutions

    Unruly Politics in the Contemporary World

    A cutting-edge appraisal of revolution and its future. On Revolutions, co-authored by six prominent scholars of revolutions, reinvigorates revolutionary studies for the twenty-first century. Integrating insights from diverse fields--including civil resistance studies, international relations, social movements, and terrorism--they offer new ways of thinking about persistent problems in the study of ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism systematically integrates the substantial body of scholarship on terrorism and counterterrorism before and after 9/11. In doing so, it introduces scholars and practitioners to state of the art approaches, methods, and issues in studying and teaching these vital phenomena. This Handbook goes further than most existing collections by giving structure and direction to ... Read more

    $158.39 USD

  • Civil Action and the Dynamics of Violence

    Many view civil wars as violent contests between armed combatants. But history shows that community groups, businesses, NGOs, local governments, and even armed groups can respond to war by engaging in civil action. Characterized by a reluctance to resort to violence and a willingness to show enough respect to engage with others, civil action can slow, delay, or prevent violent escalations. This ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

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    This Is an Uprising

    How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century

    Narrated by Graham Halstead ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 28 min

    Strategic nonviolent action has reasserted itself as a potent force in shaping public debate and forcing political change. Whether it is an explosive surge of protest calling for racial justice in the United States or a demand for democratic reform in Hong Kong or Mexico, when mass movements erupt onto our television screens, the media portrays them as being as spontaneous and unpredictable. In ... Read more

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  • This Is an Uprising

    How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century

    In a book that has become a modern classic of social movement organizing, Mark and Paul Engler explain that there is a craft to uprising—and that this craft can change the world.From protests around climate change and immigrant rights, to #BlackLivesMatter and movements to defend democracy, a new generation is unleashing strategic nonviolent action to shape public debate and force political change ... Read more

    $15.99 USD