Unarmed Insurrections - People Power Movements In Nondemocracies (Paperback)

In the last two decades of the twentieth century, a wave of "people power" movements erupted throughout the nondemocratic world. In South Africa, the Philippines, Nepal, Thailand, Burma (Myanmar), China, and elsewhere, mass protest demonstrations, strikes, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other nonviolent actions were brought to bear on a rigid political status quo. Kurt Schock compares the successes of the antiapartheid movement in South Africa, the people power movement in the Philippines, the pro-democracy movement in Nepal, and the antimilitary movement in Thailand with the failures of the pro-democracy movement in China and the anti-regime challenge in Burma. Schock develops a synthetic framework that allows him to identify which characteristics increase the resilience of a challenge to state repression, and which aspects of a state's relations can he exploited by such a challenge. By looking at how these methods of protest promoted regime change in some countries but not in others, this book provides rare insight into the often overlooked and little understood power of nonviolent action.

General

Imprint:	University of Minnesota Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Social Movements, Protest and Contention
Release date:	November 2004
First published:	December 2004
Authors:	Kurt Schock
Dimensions:	229 x 149 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-8166-4193-2
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-8166-4193-5
Barcode:	9780816641932

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