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Civil Resistance

What Everyone Needs to Know

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By: Erica Chenoweth
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Civil resistance is a method of conflict through which unarmed civilians use a variety of coordinated methods (strikes, protests, demonstrations, boycotts, and many other tactics) to prosecute a conflict without directly harming or threatening to harm an opponent. Sometimes called nonviolent resistance, unarmed struggle, or nonviolent action, this form of political action is now a mainstay across the globe. It was a central form of resistance in the 1989 revolutions and in the Arab Spring, and it is now being practiced widely in Trump's America. If we are going to understand the manifold protest movements emerging around the globe, we need a thorough understanding of civil resistance and its many dynamics and manifestations.

In Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know, Erica Chenoweth—one of the world's leading scholars on the topic—explains what civil resistance is, how it works, why it sometimes fails, how violence and repression affect it, and the long-term impacts of such resistance. Featuring both historical cases of civil resistance and more contemporary examples such as the Arab Awakenings and various ongoing movements in the United States, this book provides a comprehensive yet pithy overview of this enormously important subject.

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Such an amazing summarized history about civil Résistance and movements against authorities around the world! Listening this book as a female Iranian, gave me so much hope that there were many countries around globe during the history that could free themselves from the dictatorship!
Narrating was also great, listening to the voice of Ms. Chenoweth herself telling her story was a double connection with her book! Short texts each with a question as a title made book more interesting to listen! You can just pick a question and go to losten for the answer of it! Although it was better to listen it once from first page to the last page ! Thanks again Ms. Chenoweth for your book! Viva freedom!

Viva Libertà!

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