When Nonviolent Civil Resistance Campaigns Fail: Demobilized, Escalated and Negotiated Ends [Hardcover]

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Chapter 1. Introduction: Appreciating How and Why Civil Resistance Campaigns Fail

Chapter 2. Concepts and Measures: Introducing a Continuum of Civil Resistance Termination Types and Dataset

Chapter 3. Sources of Campaign Strength and their Connection to Civil Resistance Termination Types

Chapter 4. Positive Demobilization through Partial Success: Compromise to End Civil Resistance Campaigns

Chapter 5. Escalation: Why Civil Resistance Campaigns Transform to Violent Conflicts

Chapter 6. Negative Demobilization through Disbanding: Why Movements End without Achieving their Goals

Chapter 7. Negative Demobilization through Defeat: When and Why States Employ Overwhelming Repression to Break Campaigns

Chapter 8. Conclusions

This book examines both how and why non-violent civil resistance campaigns fail, and the diverse category of campaigns that fall short.

Kirssa Cline Ryckman is an Assistant Professor in the School of Government and Public Policy, University of Arizona, USA.

This book examines both how and why nonviolent civil resistance campaigns fail, and the diverse category of campaigns that fall short.

Civil resistance campaigns are known for their success, for their ability to overthrow central governments or gain territorial independence. There have been a growing number of civil resistance campaigns in recent decades; however, their rate of success has decreased. More unarmed campaigns are now ending without achieving their ultimate political goals. This study moves beyond the success or failure dichotomy to unpack how nonviolent campaigns end, while also paying attention to the processes that encourage conflict demobilization or transformation. Drawing from thelW