Introduction: civil resistance in comparative perspective / Kurt SchockDynamics of civil resistance "We do not work for peace" : reframing nonviolence in post-Oslo Palestine / Julie M. Norman Nonviolent action as the interplay between political context and Ôinsider's knowledge' : otpor in Serbia / Janjira Sombatpoonsiri Youth mobilization before and during the orange revolution : learning from losses / Olena Nikolayenko How regimes counter civil resistance movements : the cases of Panama and Kenya / Sharon Erickson Nepstad From political jiu-jitsu to the backfire dynamic : how repression promotes mobilization / Brian Martin Sources, functions, and dilemmas of external assistance to civil resistance movements / Veronique Dudouet Frontiers of civil resistance ; Defending freedom with civil resistance in the early Roman republic / Dustin Ells Howes Making sense of civil resistance: from theories and techniques to social movement phronesis / Sean Chabot Four dimensions of nonviolent action : a sociological perspective / Stellan Vinthagen Overcoming illusory division : between nonviolence as a pragmatic strategy and a principled way of life / Chaiwat Satha-Anand Civil resistance in the twenty-first century / Kurt Schock Acknowledgments ; Contributors ; Index. |