Twenty-one years ago, at a friend's request, a Massachusetts professor sketched out a blueprint for nonviolent resistance to repressive regimes. It would go on to be translated, photocopied, and handed from one activist to another, traveling from country to country across the gl…
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Twenty-one years ago, at a friend's request, a Massachusetts professor sketched out a blueprint for nonviolent resistance to repressive regimes. It would go on to be translated, photocopied, and handed from one activist to another, traveling from country to country across the gl…
Confrontations between the powerless and the powerful are laden with deception--the powerless feign deference and the powerful subtly assert their mastery. Peasants, serfs, untouchables, slaves, labourers, and prisoners are not free to speak their minds in the presence of power.…
Confrontations between the powerless and the powerful are laden with deception--the powerless feign deference and the powerful subtly assert their mastery. Peasants, serfs, untouchables, slaves, labourers, and prisoners are not free to speak their minds in the presence of power.…
"La désobéissance à la loi est-elle compatible avec la démocratie? Cette question provocante interroge les fondements de notre société. En effet, de nombreux mouvements, qui se présentent comme « désobéissants », remettent en cause le principe du respect absolu des décisions pri…
Over the last forty years the world has witnessed the emergence and proliferation of a new political phenomenon - unarmed revolution. This book explores why some nonviolent revolutionary movements lead to unarmed revolution, and others result in devastating failure.
We know of the blood and tears provoked by the projects of transformation of the world through war or revolution. But what do we know of the dilemmas, of the "betrayals," of the disappointments and tragedies that the movement of non-violence has suffered? Starting with the Ameri…
The author examines the central questions concerning the duty to obey the law: its meaning, its grounds, and its limits. He confirms the existence of the duty to obey the law, but argues that this duty is easily outweighed by values and principles of political morality.
The global age is distinguished by disobedience, from the protests in Tiananmen Square to the fall of the Berlin Wall, to the anti-G8 and anti-WTO demonstrations. In this book, Raffaele Laudani offers a systematic review of how disobedience has been conceptualised, supported, an…
"The global age is distinguished by disobedience, from the protests in Tiananmen Square to the fall of the Berlin Wall, to the anti-G8 and anti-World Trade Organization demonstrations. In this book, Raffaele Laudani offers a systematic review of how disobedience has been concept…
Explores the role and significance of unarmed civil resistance in the Palestinian national movement, arguing that the movement, especially in the West Bank, is the most significant form of struggle against the occupation.