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Civilian Jihad
- Nonviolent Struggle, Democratization, and Governance in the Middle East
Engelsk Paperback
Civilian Jihad
- Nonviolent Struggle, Democratization, and Governance in the Middle East
Engelsk Paperback

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The Middle East, a region infamous for political violence and a democratic deficit, boasts a rich but little-known history of nonviolent civilian-led struggles for rights and freedoms. Ordinary Egyptians, Palestinians, Turks, Israelis, Iranians, Kuwaitis and other Middle Easterners have, over the past century, used "weapons" including boycotts, strikes, demonstrations, sit-ins, and other methods of civil disobedience and noncooperation to courageously challenge entrenched power and to advance democratic self-rule. This book challenges the oft-heard claim that nonviolent resistance "can''t work" in the Middle East by chronicling some of the most significant nonviolent campaigns against colonialism, foreign occupation, authoritarianism, and structural injustice in the region. Other chapters examine the role of strategy, political humor, religion, Islamist movements, and external actors in advancing and impeding democratization and good governance. This volume, which includes scholarly and activist perspectives, will be of particular interest to academics, policymakers, journalists, and local civic leaders interested in the Middle East, nonviolent action, social movements, democratization, and war and peace studies - as well as educated general readers interested in understanding present convulsions in the Middle East.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
344
ISBN-13:
9780230621411
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0230621414
Udg. Dato:
12 feb 2010
Længde:
18mm
Bredde:
156mm
Højde:
234mm
Forlag:
Palgrave Macmillan
Oplagsdato:
12 feb 2010
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