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Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. The mass civil resistance that followed a political assassination and stolen election undermined the dictator’s most important sources of domestic and international power and led to a relatively peaceful democratic transition....In 1988 a popular uprising in Burma posed an unprecedented challenge to that country’s military dictatorship. Reliable information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) is available from the World Health Organization (Chenoweth and Stephan conclude that successful nonviolent resistance ushers in more durable and internally peaceful democracies, which are less likely to regress into civil war. nonviolent noncooperation, these efforts help separate regimes from Such movements erupt when there are widespread grievances against the state and elites shift their allegiance from the regime to … They find such campaigns present fewer obstacles to moral and physical involvement and commitment, and higher levels of participation contribute to enhanced resilience, greater opportunities for tactical innovation and civic disruption (and therefore less incentive for a regime to maintain its status quo), and shifts in loyalty among opponents' erstwhile supporters, including members of the military establishment.The subject field is required. They identify the conditions favoring its success and provide a convincing explanation for why nonviolent resistance is so effective. JSTOR®, the JSTOR logo, JPASS®, Artstor®, Reveal Digital™ and ITHAKA® are registered trademarks of ITHAKA. Some features of the site may not work correctly.arly debates about the efacacy of methods of warfare is the assumption that the most effective means of waging political struggle entails violence.1 Among political scientists, the prevailing view is that opposition movements select violent methods because such means are more effective than nonviolent strategies at achieving policy goals.2 Despite these assumptions, from 2000 to 2006 organized civilian populations successfully employed nonviolent methods inWhy Civil Resistance Works Understanding state repression in the light of gender equality : Exploring under which conditions states use violent repression toward violent and nonviolent dissentNonviolent Weapons: The Transnationalism of Nonviolent ResistanceSometimes they mean what they say: understanding violence among domestic extremistsTHE STUDY OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF ARMED GROUPS: LESSONS FROM THE SOCIAL MOVEMENT LITERATURENon-Violent Campaign and Social Change : Lessons from Liberia and Campaigns to Ban Landmine and Cluster Munitions OseremenSolidarity in an Age of Globalization: The Transnational Movement for East Timor and U.S. Foreign PolicyAid Money Goes to Indonesian Regime Despite MassacresAnders Uhlin,Indonesia and the "Third Wave of Democratization":The Indonesian Pro-Democracy Movement in a Changing WorldAuthoritarianism 2.0: Non-Democratic Regimes Are Upgrading and Integrating GloballyCivilian resistance as a national defence : non-violent action against aggressionClinton Demands Indonesia Accept International ForceDemonstrators in Rangoon fought back with whatever weapons they could improvise. ... Full Citation: Chenoweth, Erica, and Maria J. Stephan.