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Ches Thurber - Between Mao and Gandhi, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Between Mao and Gandhi

The Social Roots of Civil Resistance

Av Ches Thurber

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From Eastern Europe to South Africa to the Arab Spring, nonviolent action has proven capable of overthrowing autocratic regimes and bringing about revolutionary political change. How do dissidents come to embrace a nonviolent strategy in the first place? Why do others rule it out in favor of taking up arms? Despite a new wave of attention to the effectiveness and global impact of nonviolent movements, our understanding of their origins and trajectories remains limited. Drawing on cases from Nepal, Syria, India and South Africa, as well as global cross-national data, this book details the processes through which challenger organizations come to embrace or reject civil resistance as a means of capturing state power. It develops a relational theory, showing how the social ties that underpin challenger organizations shape their ability and willingness to attempt regime change using nonviolent means alone.
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Ches Thurber is an assistant professor of political science at Northern Illinois University. His research has been published in International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Global Security Studies, Conflict Management and Peace Science, and Small Wars and Insurgencies.

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'In this book, Ches Thurber explores why movements challenging state power adopt violent or nonviolent strategies of resistance. Thurber argues this variation can be traced back to the structure of social networks and connections within which these movements are embedded and provides extensive supporting evidence from Nepal, Syria, and cross-national data. This is a first-rate contribution to answering a fundamentally important question.' Paul Staniland, Associate Professor of Political Science, The University of Chicago

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