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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      23 October 2009
      02 March 2000
      ISBN:
      9780511491245
      9780521770996
      9780521778299
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511491245
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.615kg, 310 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.505kg, 312 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Studies in International Relations (70)
      Subjects:
      Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations, Philosophy, Political Philosophy
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    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in International Relations (70)
    Subjects:
    Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations, Philosophy, Political Philosophy
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    Popular dissent, such as street demonstrations and civil disobedience, has become increasingly transnational in nature and scope. As a result, a local act of resistance can acquire almost immediately a much larger, cross-territorial dimension. This book draws upon a broad and innovative range of sources to scrutinise this central but often neglected aspect of global politics. Through case studies that span from Renaissance perceptions of human agency to the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the author examines how the theory and practice of popular dissent has emerged and evolved during the modern period. Dissent, he argues, is more than just transnational. It has become an important 'transversal' phenomenon: an array of diverse political practices which not only cross national boundaries, but also challenge the spatial logic through which these boundaries frame international relations.

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    ‘Bleiker’s book is a beautiful disruption of IR’s contemporary theoretical doldrums. It is ambitious - both in structure and purpose - yet aware of its limits, and the impossibility (indeed undesirability) of final resolution for many of the issues it raises.’

    Source: Millennium

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