Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict

by Maria J. Stephan and Erica Chenoweth

Book Overview

For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of nonviolent noncooperation, these efforts help separate regimes from their main sources of power and produce remarkable results, even...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231156839
• ISBN13: 9780231156837
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher