Iain Atack is Assistant Professor of International Peace Studies at the Irish School of Ecumenics at Trinity College Dublin and editor of The Ethics of Debt ‘Forgiveness’: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Perspectives on the Third World Debt Crisis.

This timely and lucid analysis of the significance of nonviolence is innovative in what it adds to political theory. It is also significant for what it adds to understanding the power of nonviolence to direct the processes of social and political change currently sweeping the globe.

• PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1: The Theory and Practice of Nonviolent Political ActionChapter 2: Political Theory, Violence and the StateChapter 3: Nonviolence, the State and Civil ResistanceChapter 4: Nonviolence and Political PowerChapter 5: Structure, Agency and Nonviolent Political ActionChapter 6: Pacifism and NonviolenceConclusionBibiliography

Iain Atack is Assistant Professor of International Peace Studies at the Irish School of Ecumenics at Trinity College Dublin and editor of The Ethics of Debt ‘Forgiveness’: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Perspectives on the Third World Debt Crisis.

This timely and lucid analysis of the significance of nonviolence is innovative in what it adds to political theory. It is also significant for what it adds to understanding the power of nonviolence to direct the processes of social and political change currently sweeping the globe.

• PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1: The Theory and Practice of Nonviolent Political ActionChapter 2: Political Theory, Violence and the StateChapter 3: Nonviolence, the State and Civil ResistanceChapter 4: Nonviolence and Political PowerChapter 5: Structure, Agency and Nonviolent Political ActionChapter 6: Pacifism and NonviolenceConclusionBibiliography

Iain Atack is Assistant Professor of International Peace Studies at the Irish School of Ecumenics at Trinity College Dublin and editor of The Ethics of Debt ‘Forgiveness’: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Perspectives on the Third World Debt Crisis.

This timely and lucid analysis of the significance of nonviolence is innovative in what it adds to political theory. It is also significant for what it adds to understanding the power of nonviolence to direct the processes of social and political change currently sweeping the globe.

• PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1: The Theory and Practice of Nonviolent Political ActionChapter 2: Political Theory, Violence and the StateChapter 3: Nonviolence, the State and Civil ResistanceChapter 4: Nonviolence and Political PowerChapter 5: Structure, Agency and Nonviolent Political ActionChapter 6: Pacifism and NonviolenceConclusionBibiliography