Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: civil resistance in comparative perspective / Kurt Schock -- Dynamics of civil resistance -- "We do not work for peace" : reframing nonviolence in post-Oslo Palestine / Julie M. Norman -- Nonviolent action as the interplay between political context and Ôinsider's knowledge' : otpor in Serbia / Janjira Sombatpoonsiri -- Youth mobilization before and during the orange revolution : learning from losses / Olena Nikolayenko -- How regimes counter civil resistance movements : the cases of Panama and Kenya / Sharon Erickson Nepstad -- From political jiu-jitsu to the backfire dynamic : how repression promotes mobilization / Brian Martin -- Sources, functions, and dilemmas of external assistance to civil resistance movements / Veronique Dudouet -- Frontiers of civil resistance -- Defending freedom with civil resistance in the early Roman republic / Dustin Ells Howes -- Making sense of civil resistance: from theories and techniques to social movement phronesis / Sean Chabot -- Four dimensions of nonviolent action : a sociological perspective / Stellan Vinthagen -- Overcoming illusory division : between nonviolence as a pragmatic strategy and a principled way of life / Chaiwat Satha-Anand -- Civil resistance in the twenty-first century / Kurt Schock -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index.