If the world has indeed entered a new era, and if global communications make every conflict more visible and the use of military force seem more reprehensible to mankind at large, then the possibilities for successful nonviolent conflict would seem to have broadened. By analyzing the cases they present, Ackerman and Kruegler have done pioneer work in trying to show how such actions have a better chance of success. The Christian Science Monitor
The Emergence of Strategic Nonviolent Conflict The Principles of Strategic Nonviolent Conflict Nonviolent Sanctions in the Russian Revolution The Ruhrkampf: Regional Defense from Occupation The Indian Independence Movement, 1930-1931 Denmark: Occupation and Resistance, 1940-1945 El Salvador: The Civic Strike of 1944 Solidarity versus the Polish Communist Party, 1980-1981 Strategy and the Margin of Victory
PETER ACKERMAN is Managing Director of Rockport Financial, Ltd. and Rockport Partners, Inc. in London. He was a Visiting Scholar at the International Institute of Strategic Studies until 1992. CHRISTOPHER KRUEGLER is President of The Albert Einstein Institution, Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is editor-in-chief of the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action (1996).
?If the world has indeed entered a new era, and if global
communications make every conflict more visible and the use of
military force seem more reprehensible to mankind at large, then
the possiblities for successful nonviolent conflict would seem to
have broadened. By analyzing the cases they present, Ackerman and
Kruegler have done pioneer work in trying to show how such actions
have a better chance of success.?-The Christian Science Monitor
?This is an excellent book, well-written and well-researched, with
the potential to guide both future research and to inform
nonviolent activists.?-Fellowship
"This is an excellent book, well-written and well-researched, with
the potential to guide both future research and to inform
nonviolent activists."-Fellowship
"If the world has indeed entered a new era, and if global
communications make every conflict more visible and the use of
military force seem more reprehensible to mankind at large, then
the possiblities for successful nonviolent conflict would seem to
have broadened. By analyzing the cases they present, Ackerman and
Kruegler have done pioneer work in trying to show how such actions
have a better chance of success."-The Christian Science Monitor
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