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Author : Richard Gabriel Fox
Release : 1997
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 160/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Between Resistance and Revolution by : Richard Gabriel Fox
Download or read book Between Resistance and Revolution written by Richard Gabriel Fox. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: .
Author : Professor Eric Selbin
Release : 2013-04-04
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 737/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance by : Professor Eric Selbin
Download or read book Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance written by Professor Eric Selbin. This book was released on 2013-04-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do revolutions happen? Decades of social science research have brought us little closer to understanding where, when and amongst whom they occur. In this groundbreaking book, Eric Selbin argues that we need to look beyond the economic, political and social structural conditions to the thoughts and feelings of the people who make revolutions. In particular, he argues, we need to understand the stories people relay and rework of past injustices and struggles as they struggle in the present towards a better future. Ranging from the French Revolution to the Battle for Seattle, via Russia, China, Cuba, Vietnam and Nicaragua, Selbin makes the case that it is myth, memory and mimesis which create, maintain and extend such stories. Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance identifies four kinds of enduring revolutionary story - Civilizing and Democratizing, The Social Revolution, Freedom and Liberation and The Lost and Forgotten - which do more than report on events, they catalyse changing the world.
Author : Christopher J. Finlay
Release : 2015-08-07
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 998/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Terrorism and the Right to Resist by : Christopher J. Finlay
Download or read book Terrorism and the Right to Resist written by Christopher J. Finlay. This book was released on 2015-08-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The words 'rebellion' and 'revolution' have gained renewed prominence in the vocabulary of world politics and so has the question of justifiable armed 'resistance'. In this book Christopher J. Finlay extends just war theory to provide a rigorous and systematic account of the right to resist oppression and of the forms of armed force it can justify. He specifies the circumstances in which rebels have the right to claim recognition as legitimate actors in revolutionary wars against domestic tyranny and injustice, and wars of liberation against wrongful foreign occupation and colonialism. Arguing that violence is permissible only in a narrow range of cases, Finlay shows that the rules of engagement vary during and between different conflicts and explores the potential for irregular tactics to become justifiable, such as non-uniformed guerrillas and civilian disguise, the assassination of political leaders and regime officials, and the waging of terrorist war against civilian targets.
Author : Pauline Maier
Release : 1991
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 259/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis From Resistance To Revolution by : Pauline Maier
Download or read book From Resistance To Revolution written by Pauline Maier. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details major events which shaped an organized resistance movement against the British and brought about the American Revolution.
Author : Erica Chenoweth
Release : 2011-08-09
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 489/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Why Civil Resistance Works by : Erica Chenoweth
Download or read book Why Civil Resistance Works written by Erica Chenoweth. This book was released on 2011-08-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 sources of power and produce remarkable results, even in Iran, Burma, the Philippines, and the Palestinian Territories. Combining statistical analysis with case studies of specific countries and territories, Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan detail the factors enabling such campaigns to succeed and, sometimes, causing them to fail. They find that nonviolent resistance presents fewer obstacles to moral and physical involvement and commitment, and that higher levels of participation contribute to enhanced resilience, greater opportunities for tactical innovation and civic disruption (and therefore less incentive for a regime to maintain its status quo), and shifts in loyalty among opponents' erstwhile supporters, including members of the military establishment. Chenoweth and Stephan conclude that successful nonviolent resistance ushers in more durable and internally peaceful democracies, which are less likely to regress into civil war. Presenting a rich, evidentiary argument, they originally and systematically compare violent and nonviolent outcomes in different historical periods and geographical contexts, debunking the myth that violence occurs because of structural and environmental factors and that it is necessary to achieve certain political goals. Instead, the authors discover, violent insurgency is rarely justifiable on strategic grounds.
