Between Mao and Gandhi
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Between Mao and Gandhi

The Social Roots of Civil Resistance

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Between Mao and Gandhi

The Social Roots of Civil Resistance

About this book

From Eastern Europe to South Africa to the Arab Spring, nonviolent action has proven capable of overthrowing autocratic regimes and bringing about revolutionary political change. How do dissidents come to embrace a nonviolent strategy in the first place? Why do others rule it out in favor of taking up arms? Despite a new wave of attention to the effectiveness and global impact of nonviolent movements, our understanding of their origins and trajectories remains limited. Drawing on cases from Nepal, Syria, India and South Africa, as well as global cross-national data, this book details the processes through which challenger organizations come to embrace or reject civil resistance as a means of capturing state power. It develops a relational theory, showing how the social ties that underpin challenger organizations shape their ability and willingness to attempt regime change using nonviolent means alone.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title Page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of Figures
  9. List of Tables
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. 1 Pathways to Revolution
  12. 2 Social Ties and Civil Resistance
  13. 3 Nepal's Gandhians Take Arms
  14. 4 Nepal's Maoists Take to the Streets
  15. 5 Syria in the Arab Spring
  16. 6 Resisting Colonial Rule in the Syrian Mandate
  17. 7 Barriers to Civil Resistance: A Global Analysis
  18. 8 Gandhi Revisited: Overcoming Barriers to Civil Resistance in South Africa and India
  19. 9 Conclusion
  20. Appendix: Notes on Field Research in Nepal
  21. References
  22. Index