Organizing for Peace: Neutrality, the Test Ban, and the Freeze

by Robert Kleidman

Kleidman shows how the campaigns' organizational dynamics shaped their rise, course, fall, and impact both on public policy and on the peace movement itself. But as Kleidman points out, the three groups failed despite widespread mobilization and intense activism.

Combining careful historical research with insights from contemporary social movement theory, this book sheds new light on the campaigns and the peace movement, as well as on key aspects of social movement organizations, cycles, and trends. Particularly valuable for policy and analysis is Kleidman's framework of organizational tensions.

Social scientists and historians, particularly students and scholars of social movements and peace movements, will value the policy implications and analytical rigor of this book.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815625731
• ISBN13: 9780815625735
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.9" x 8.8"