Warum ziviler Widerstand funktioniert

Award-winning book, now for the first time in German translation (winner of the 2013 Grawemeyer Award, winner of the 2012 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award from the American Political Science Association, 2011 Book of the Year from The Guardian).
Campaigns of non-violent resistance were more than twice as successful as violent movements between 1900 and 2006.
The authors combine statistical analysis with over 300 case studies from around the world and show in detail the factors that make such campaigns successful - and sometimes cause them to fail. The book systematically compares violent and non-violent developments in different political and geographical conflict contexts. It debunks the myth that violence is caused by structural and situational factors and is necessary to achieve certain political goals. Instead, Chenoweth and Stephan find that violent uprisings can rarely be justified on strategic grounds. And they prove that non-violent resistance movements lead to more stable and peaceful democracies more often, faster, with far fewer victims and at lower cost. Findings that are still highly topical today!