Tag: Why Civil Resistance Works

June 5, 2020

We Stand in Solidarity with All Those Peacefully Protesting Injustice

Columbia University Press strongly condemns the unjust killing of George Floyd and the deaths of many who went before him. We protest the systemic racism that plagues our country, and we must dedicate ourselves to eradicating it. We stand in...

March 28, 2020

Join Caelyn Cobb on a Tour of Our Featured Book Series at ISA 2020!

Mahalo for continuing to follow our virtual International Studies Association exhibit! Today I’d like to talk to you about our global politics series. We have a lot of series in this field, because you political scientists love your series. Don’t...

August 29, 2013

Marc Lynch and Erica Chenoweth on U.S. Military Intervention in Syria

“But Obama has actually learned the real lessons of Iraq, the risks and costs, to America and to the world, of poorly conceived interventions abroad that never go quite as promised.”—Marc Lynch on possible U.S. military intervention in Syria As...

November 27, 2012

Why Civil Resistance Works wins 2013 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order

Congratulations to Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan, who have been awarded the 2013 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order for their work on Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict.

September 20, 2012

Erica Chenoweth: Why civil resistance trumps violent uprisings

“Nonviolent resistance of some sort is almost always possible, and armed uprisings are never inevitable. Instead, violence may be a method people choose because they don’t know there is a realistic alternative.”–Erica Chenoweth With a variety of protest movements erupting...

August 22, 2012

Erica Chenoweth — Creative Nonviolence Can Defeat Repression

Erica Chenoweth explains how protests can most effectively bring down repressive regimes.

November 28, 2011

Steven Pinker Chooses Why Civil Resistance Works as a Best Book of 2011

The Guardian recently posted its list of the Best Books of 2011 as selected by such notable figures as AS Byatt, Jonathan Franzen, Eric Hobsbawm, Hari Kunzru, Hanif Kureishi, David Lodge Colm Tóibín, David Hare, and Jeanette Winterson. The Guardian...