Civilian Jihad: nonviolent struggle, democratization, and governance in the Middle East

This book examines the role of nonviolent civil resistance in challenging tyranny and promoting democratic-self rule in the greater Middle East using case studies and analyses of how religion, youth, women, technology and external actors have influenced the outcome of civil resistance in the region. INDICE: PART I: OVERVIEW - Theory and Dynamics of Nonviolent Action; H.Merriman - Questions and Controversies about Nonviolent Struggle in the Middle East; R.E.Crow& P.Grant - No Silence, No Violence: A Post-Islamist Trajectory; A.Bayat - Humour and Resistance in the Arab World and Greater Middle East; K.Kishtainy - Islamist and Nonviolent Action; S.Hamid - Free at Last! Free at Last! Allahu Akbar, We Are Free at Last! Parallels Between Modern Arab and IslamicActivism and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement; R.G.Khouri - External Actors andNonviolent Struggles in the Middle East; S.Zunes& S.Eddin Ibrahim - PART II: CASE STUDIES: CHALLENGING FOREIGN OCCUPATION AND DOMINATION - The Muslim Pashtun Movement of the North-West Frontier of India, 1930b 1934; M.Raqib - Noncooperation in the Golan Heights: A Case of Nonviolent Resistance; R.S.Kennedy - Palestinian Popular Resistance against Israeli Military Occupation; M.E.King - The Nonviolent Struggle for Self-Determination in the Western Sahara; S.Barca&S.Zunes - Lebanon's Independence Intifada: How Unarmed Insurrection Expelled Syrian Forces; R.Jaafar& M.J.Stephan - PART III: CASE STUDIES: CHALLENGING DOMESTIC TYRANNY AND PROMOTING DEMOCRATIC REFORM - Iran's Islamic Revolution and Nonviolent Struggle; M.Sazegara& M.Stephan - Kefaya: The Egyptian Movement forChange; S.Mansour - Kuwaiti 2005 'Orange Movement'; F.Alfahad H.Albloshi - PART IV: CASE STUDIES: MOVEMENTS FOR SOCIAL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS - Hizbullah: Delimiting the Boundaries of Nonviolent Resistance?; R.el-Husseini - Realistic Nonviolence: Arba Imahot, The Four Mothers Movement in Israel; T.Hermann - Popular Resistance against Corruption in Turkey and Egypt; S.Beyerle& A.Hassan - The Iranian Women's Movement: Repression versus Nonviolent Resolve; F.D.Mohajer, R.Tolouee& S.Beyerle - Conclusion: Civil Resistance - Wave of the Future in the Middle East? -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-62141-1
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 352
• Fecha Publicación: 10/02/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés