ISBN10: 0816641935, ISBN13: 9780816641932, [publisher: University of Minnesota Press, Minnesota] Softcover Paperback. Kurt Schock compares the successes of the antiapartheid movement in South Africa, the people power movement in the Philipines, the pro-democracy movement in Nepal, and the antimilitary movement in Thailand with the failures of the pro-democracy movement in China and the anti-regime challenge in Burma. Schock develops a synthetic framework that allows him to identify which characteristics increase the resilience of a challenge to state repression, and which aspects of a state's relations can be exploited by such a challenge. In the last two decades of the twentieth century, a wave of "people power" movements erupted throughout the nondemocratic world. In South Africa, the Philippines, Nepal, Thailand, Burma (Myanmar), China, and elsewhere, mass protest demonstrations, strikes, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other nonviolent actions were brought to bear on a rigid political status quo. Kurt Schock compares the successes of the antiapartheid movement in South Africa, the people power movement in the Philippines, the pro-democracy movement in Nepal, and the antimilitary movement in Thailand with the failures of the pro-democracy movement in China and the anti-regime challenge in Burma. Schock develops a synthetic framework that allows him to identify which characteristics increase the resilience of a challenge to state ...
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ISBN10: 0816641935, ISBN13: 9780816641932, [publisher: University of Minnesota Press 2005-05-03, Minneapolis, Minn. :|Bristol] Softcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2005]

Minneapolis, Minn. : |Bristol University of Minnesota Press 2004 Trade paperback New in new dust jacket.