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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      25 October 2011
      24 October 2011
      ISBN:
      9781139013239
      9781107007024
      9781107632493
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139013239
      Dimensions:
      (234 x 156 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.64kg, 302 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (234 x 156 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.47kg, 302 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics, Middle East Government,Politics and Policy
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    Why do some national movements use violent protest and others nonviolent protest? Wendy Pearlman shows that much of the answer lies inside movements themselves. Nonviolent protest requires coordination and restraint, which only a cohesive movement can provide. When, by contrast, a movement is fragmented, factional competition generates new incentives for violence and authority structures are too weak to constrain escalation. Pearlman reveals these patterns across one hundred years in the Palestinian national movement, with comparisons to South Africa and Northern Ireland. To those who ask why there is no Palestinian Gandhi, Pearlman demonstrates that nonviolence is not simply a matter of leadership. Nor is violence attributable only to religion, emotions or stark instrumentality. Instead, a movement's organizational structure mediates the strategies that it employs. By taking readers on a journey from civil disobedience to suicide bombings, this book offers fresh insight into the dynamics of conflict and mobilization.

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    'The importance of this comparative study of political violence and nonviolence does not only lie in its contribution to social movement theory and studies of political violence. It also adds substantive knowledge to studies of Palestinian nationalism and politics.'

    Erik Mohns Source: H-Soz-u-Kult

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