When Nonviolent Civil Resistance Campaigns Fail - Demobilized, Escalated and Negotiated Ends

This book examines both how and why non-violent civil resistance campaigns fail, and the diverse category of campaigns that fall short.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Chapter 1. Introduction: Appreciating How and Why Civil Resistance Campaigns "Fail"
Chapter 2. Concepts and Measures: Introducing a Continuum of Civil Resistance Termination Types and Dataset
Chapter 3. Sources of Campaign Strength and their Connection to Civil Resistance Termination Types
Chapter 4. Positive Demobilization through Partial Success: Compromise to End Civil Resistance Campaigns
Chapter 5. Escalation: Why Civil Resistance Campaigns Transform to Violent Conflicts
Chapter 6. Negative Demobilization through Disbanding: Why Movements End without Achieving their Goals
Chapter 7. Negative Demobilization through Defeat: When and Why States Employ Overwhelming Repression to Break Campaigns
Chapter 8. Conclusions

About the author

Kirssa Cline Ryckman is an Assistant Professor in the School of Government and Public Policy, University of Arizona, USA.

Summary

This book examines both how and why non-violent civil resistance campaigns fail, and the diverse category of campaigns that fall short.

Product details

• Authors: Kirssa Cline Ryckman
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032827681
• ISBN: 978-1-032-82768-1
• No. of pages: 216
• Weight: 453 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Zeichnungen, schwarz-weiss, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Series: Routledge Studies in Civil Wars and Intra-State Conflict
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, LAW / International, International Law, Warfare & defence, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Warfare and defence, International institutions, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Armed Conflict, Pressure groups & lobbying, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General, International institutions / intergovernmental organizations