Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction. Civil Resistance in Comparative Perspective
Kurt Schock
Part I. Dynamics of Civil Resistance
1. “We Do Not Work for Peace”: Reframing Nonviolence in Post-Oslo Palestine
Julie M. Norman
2. Nonviolent Action as the Interplay between Political Context and “Insider’s Knowledge”: Otpor in Serbia
Janjira Sombatpoonsiri
3. Youth Mobilization before and during the Orange Revolution: Learning from Losses
Olena Nikolayenko
4. How Regimes Counter Civil Resistance Movements: The Cases of Panama and Kenya
Sharon Erickson Nepstad
5. From Political Jiu-jitsu to the Backfire Dynamic: How Repression Can Promote Mobilization
Brian Martin
6. Sources, Functions, and Dilemmas of External Assistance to Civil Resistance Movements
Véronique Dudouet
Part II. Frontiers of Civil Resistance
7. Defending Freedom with Civil Resistance in the Early Roman Republic
Dustin Ells Howes
8. Making Sense of Civil Resistance: From Theories and Techniques to Social Movement Phronesis
Sean Chabot
9. Four Dimensions of Nonviolent Action: A Sociological Perspective
Stellan Vinthagen
10. Overcoming Illusory Division: Between Nonviolence as a Pragmatic Strategy and a Principled Way of Life
Chaiwat Satha-Anand
11. Civil Resistance in the Twenty-First Century
Kurt Schock
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index

About the Author

Kurt Schock is associate professor of sociology and global affairs at Rutgers University.

Contributors: Sean Chabot, Eastern Washington U; Véronique Dudouet, Berghof Foundation, Germany; Dustin Ells Howes, Louisiana State U; Brian Martin, U of Wollongong, Australia; Sharon Erickson Nepstad, U of New Mexico; Olena Nikolayenko, Fordham U; Julie M. Norman, Queen's U, Belfast; Chaiwat Satha-Anand, Thammasat U, Thailand; Janjira Sombatpoonsiri, Thammasat U, Thailand; Stellan Vinthagen, U West and U of Göteborg, Sweden

Reviews

"A major contribution to our understanding of nonviolent social change."—Mobilization"Kurt Schock’s edited volume provides an excellent overview of some of the latest research findings and theoretical developments of the rapidly growing subfield of strategic nonviolent action. Civil Resistance reminds us why the study of civil resistance has become mainstream in political science and related fields."—Perspectives on Politics