Civilian Jihad: Nonviolent Struggle, Democratization, and Governance in the Middle East by Maria J. Stephan
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Overview: The Middle East, a regioninfamous forpolitical violence and ademocratic 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 othermethods of civil disobedience and noncooperation to courageously challengeentrenched power and to advance democraticself-rule.
This book challenges the oft-heard claim that nonviolent resistance “can’t work” in theMiddle East bychronicling some of the most significant nonviolent campaigns against colonialism, foreign occupation, authoritarianism, and structural injustice in the region.Other chaptersexamine the role ofstrategy, politicalhumor, religion, Islamist movements, and external actors in advancing and impeding democratization and good governance. This volume, which includesscholarly and activist perspectives,will be of particular interest toacademics, policymakers, journalists,and local civic leaders interested in theMiddle 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.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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