Unarmed Insurrections: People Power Movements In Nondemocracies (Volume 22) (Social Movements, Protest and Contention)

Kurt Schock compares, along with other examples, the successes of anti-apartheid in South Africa and the people power movement in the Philippines with the failures of the pro-democracy movement in China and the anti-regime challenge in Burma. Unarmed Insurrections looks at how these methods promoted change in some countries but not in others, and provides insight into the power of nonviolent action. Winner of the American Political Science Association's Comparative Democratization Section's Best Book Award.