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Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict - Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare
Erica Chenoweth
Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict - Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare
Erica Chenoweth
Combining statistical analysis with case studies of specific countries and territories, Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan detail the factors enabling nonviolent resistance campaigns to succeed and, sometimes, fail. They find such campaigns present fewer obstacles to moral and physical involvement and commitment, and 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 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.
320 pages, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, figures
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | December 11, 2012 |
ISBN13 | 9780231156837 |
Publishers | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 320 |
Dimensions | 227 × 153 × 17 mm · 486 g |
Language | English |
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