Principal Investigators: Professor Sir Adam Roberts and Professor Timothy Garton Ash
The Centre for International Studies, jointly with The European Studies Centre at St Antony's College, is conducting an interdisciplinary research project on Civil Resistance and Power Politics: Domestic and International Dimensions. A landmark international conference on Civil Resistance and Power Politics was held in Oxford on 15-18 March 2007. A major scholarly edited book resulting from this conference is mentioned below.
More documents on the project are available:
- March
2007 Conference programme
(pdf) - March
2007 Conference report (pdf)
- A
map and timeline of civil resistance since 1945, prepared for
the March 2007 conference. (pdf)
- Sound
recording of Adam
Roberts’ opening presentation at the
conference on 'Civil Resistance and Power Politics', 14 March 2007
mp3 - On 23 May 2008 a workshop on 'The European Way of Civil Resistance'
was held in St Antony’s College, Oxford, to evaluate the
significance of the 'Prague Spring' 40 years later. Click
here for the list of speakers. (pdf)
Book on Civil Resistance and Power Politics
This book, edited by Adam Roberts and Timothy Garton Ash, is published by Oxford University Press in 2009.
The
fall of the Berlin Wall. The end of apartheid in South Africa. The
US civil rights movement that inspired a young Barack Obama. The toppling
of Augusto Pinochet in Chile and of Slobodan Miloševic in Serbia. ‘People
Power’ in the Philippines and ‘Orange Revolution’ in
Ukraine.
What all these dramatic and disparate historical developments have in common is the often decisive presence of civil resistance. This pathbreaking volume describes and analyses most of the major cases of the use of civil resistance across nearly a hundred years, from Gandhi’s salt march in 1930 to Buddhist monks marching through the streets of Rangoon in 2007. Written by leading specialists, and illustrated throughout with historic photographs, it asks why some attempts at mass non-violent action succeeded in attaining their objectives while others failed. And it explores, rigorously and comparatively, the complex relationships between civil resistance and other factors of power, including war, economic failure and external intervention.
Civil Resistance and Power Politics is essential reading for anyone
interested in this momentous and under-studied phenomenon of our time.
Civil Resistance and Power Politics.
- List of launch meetings in UK, US, Germany and Canada
- Blurb and table
of contents of book on Civil Resistance and Power
Politics . (pdf)
- Definition of
civil resistance from the book on Civil Resistance
and Power Politics. (pdf)
- Flyer and
order form for the book with 20% discount. (pdf)
- Flyer exclusively
for US use with 20% discount. (pdf)