This nationally-acclaimed book shows how popular movements used nonviolent action to overthrow dictators, obstruct military invaders and secure human rights in country after country, over the past century.

Final Report United States. Attorney General's Task Force on Violent Crime. Recommendation 3 The Attorney General should work with the appropriate governmental authorities to make available , as needed and where feasible , abandoned ...

... Force on Violent Crime, November 4 and 18, 1981 United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime. Recommendation 3 The Attorney General should work with the appropriate governmental authorities to make ...

... Force on Violent Crime, October 23, 1981 United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Law. of the countless persons who are assaulted , robbed and burglarized by addicts in order to obtain the ...

... violent episodes, and resist the urge to interpret these extreme acts by ... forces of restraint are present. But such historically contingent feelings ... violence, to use the distinction of the political scientist Stathis Kalyvas. But ...

Entering the shady world of what he calls "violent entrepreneurship," Vadim Volkov explores the economic uses of violence and coercion in Russia in the 1990s.

Butler’s philosophical inquiry argues that it is in fact a shrewd and even aggressive collective political tactic.” —New York Times Judith Butler shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for ...

Payne concludes that the long-run tendency in societies is for the use of force to decline.

A comprehensive account of how Europeans have used violence to conquer, coerce and police in pursuit of imperialism and colonial settlement