Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Nonviolent Power and Revolutionary Change
PART I: Nonviolent Uprisings Against Socialist Regimes
Chapter 2 The Tiananmen Tragedy and the Failed Chinese Uprising
Chapter 3 The Collapse of the East German State
PART II: Nonviolent Uprisings Against Military Regimes
Chapter 4 Panama's Struggle for Democracy
Chapter 5 Ousting Chile's General Pinochet
PART III: Nonviolent Uprisings Against Personal Dictatorships
Chapter 6 Kenyan Resistance to Daniel Arap Moi
Chapter 7 The Philippines' "Bloodless Revolution"
Chapter 8 Conclusion: How Civil Resistance Works
References
Sharon Erickson Nepstad is Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of Convictions of the Soul (OUP 2004) and Religion and War Resistance in the Plowshares Movement, which won the 2009 Outstanding Book Award from the American Sociological Association's section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict.
"Leon Trotsky once wrote that the fate of every revolution is
ultimately decided by the loyalties of the armed forces. Sharon
Erickson Nepstad shows that Trotsky was right. Since Nepstad's book
went to press the wisdom of her analysis has been reconfirmed by
the success of nonviolent uprisings against dictators in Tunisia
and Egypt-mass rebellions that convinced armed forces to jump ship.
Explaining past rebellions is hard enough, but successfully
predicting
the success of future uprisings is genius!" --Jeff Goodwin,
Professor of Sociology, New York University
"Using six cases of nonviolent revolutions, Sharon Nepstad
uncontroversially, but importantly, shows that mass grievances and
elite divisions played an important role in supporting the three
successful cases; controversially, and just as importantly,
international intervention did not. As American leaders are engaged
in intervening in the Middle Eastern revolutions of 2011,
decision-makers as well as scholars will want to weigh carefully
the results of
Nepstad's analyses." --Sidney Tarrow, Professor of Government and
Sociology, Cornell University, and author of Power in Movement
"Sharon Erickson Nepstad has written a timely and concise treatment
of social movement strategy and political change in Nonviolent
Revolutions: Civil Resistance in the Late 20th Century... Nepstad
has written a profoundly useful book which should serve as a model
for experts seeking to design a tightly-argued comparative project,
as well as a reference for movement practitioners and advocates of
nonviolence. The book would also be an excellent teaching
tool for undergraduates in social movements and methods courses,
and will certainly spark discussion for anyone interested in
latter-day events like the Arab Spring." --Contemporary
Sociology
"Examining six cases of 'nonviolent revolution' that occurred in
the 1980s, three of which succeeded and three of which failed, and
explicitly applying J. S. Mill's (1967) method of difference,
Erickson Nepstad seeks to explain the success of some as opposed to
the failure of other non-violent civil resistance against highly
repressive regimes." --Political Studies Review
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