Table of Contents

Foreword on the Arab Spring
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
List of Initial Questions
1: Adam Roberts: Civil Resistance and Power Politics
2: April Carter: People Power and Protest: The Literature on Civil Resistance in Historical Context
3: Judith Brown: Gandhi and Civil Resistance in India, 1917-47: Key Issues
4: Doug McAdam: The US Civil Rights Movement: Power from Below and Above, 1945-70
5: Richard English: The Interplay of Non-violent and Violent Action in Northern Ireland, 1967-72
6: Mark Kramer: The Dialectics of Empire: Soviet Leaders and the Challenge of Civil Resistance in East-Central Europe, 1968-91
7: Kieran Williams: Civil Resistance in Czechoslovakia: From Soviet Invasion to 'Velvet Revolution', 1968-89
8: Aleksander Smolar: Towards 'Self-Limiting Revolution': Poland, 1970-89
9: Kenneth Maxwell: Portugal: 'The Revolution of the Carnations', 1974-75
10: Ervand Abrahamian: Mass Protests in the Iranian Revolution, 1977-79
11: Amado Mendoza: 'People Power' in the Philippines, 1983-86
12: Carlos Huneeus: Political Mass Mobilization against Authoritarian Rule: Pinochet's Chile, 1983-88
13: Tom Lodge: The Interplay of Non-violent and Violent Action in the Movement against Apartheid in South Africa, 1983-94
14: Mark R. Beissinger: The Intersection of Ethnic Nationalism and People Power Tactics in the Baltic States, 1987-91
15: Merle Goldman: The 1989 Demonstrations in Tiananmen Square and Beyond: Echoes of Gandhi
16: Charles S. Maier: Civil Resistance and Civil Society: Lessons from the Collapse of the German Democratic Republic in 1989
17: Howard Clark: The Limits of Prudence: Civil Resistance in Kosovo, 1990-98
18: Ivan Vejvoda: Civil Society versus Slobodan Milosevic: Serbia, 1991-2000
19: Stephen Jones: Georgia's 'Rose Revolution' of 2003: A Forceful Peace
20: Andrew Wilson: Ukraine's 'Orange Revolution' of 2004: The Paradoxes of Negotiation
21: Christina Fink: The Moment of the Monks: Burma, 2007
22: Timothy Garton Ash: A Century of Civil Resistance: Some Lessons and Questions

About the Author

Professor Sir Adam Roberts is Senior Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University, and Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. His main academic interests are in the fields of international security, international organizations, and international law (including the laws of war). He has also worked extensively on the role of civil resistance against dictatorial regimes and foreign rule, and on the history of thought
about international relations. In 1968-81 he was Lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). In 1981-6 he was Alastair Buchan Reader in International
Relations and Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford. In 1986-2007 he was Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University and Fellow of Balliol College. Professor Timothy Garton Ash is the author of eight books of political writing or 'history of the present' which have charted the transformation of Europe over the last quarter-century. He is Professor of European Studies in the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, and
a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His essays appear regularly in the New York Review of Books and he writes a weekly column in the Guardian which is widely syndicated in
Europe, Asia and the Americas. Throughout the nineteen eighties, he reported and analysed the emancipation of Central Europe from communism in contributions to the New York Review of Books, the Independent, the Times, and the Spectator.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition This book is a timely reminder that realpolitik is by no means always the best way to consolidate power. And this may prompt a rethink as to the very nature of power itself.'
David Wedgwood Benn, International Affairs