Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement

by Wendy Pearlman

Book Overview

Why do some national movements use violent protest and others nonviolent protest? Wendy Pearlman shows that much of the answer lies inside movements themselves. Nonviolent protest requires coordination and restraint, which only a cohesive movement can provide. When, by contrast, a movement is fragmented, factional competition generates new incentives for violence and authority structures are too weak to constrain escalation. Pearlman reveals these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107632498
• ISBN13: 9781107632493
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"