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Civil Resistance and Democracy Promotion A Comparative Study Analysis

By Michael Schulz Copyright 2023
164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines transnational civil society-based democracy-promoting resistance activities in Asia in a global era, focusing on the cases of Myanmar and Palestine. The work contributes to our understanding of the nexus between globalization, power and democracy by examining: (i) the ways in which globalization/global governance are influencing various resistance practices of the civil... Read more

1. Civil Resistance and its Democratising Qualities

2. The Resistance History of Burma/Myanmar

3. The Saffron Uprising

4. Yee Yee Htun

5. The Resistance History of Palestine

6. The Bil’in Campain

7. Ashraf Abu Rahmah

8. Conclusions

Biography

Michael Schulz is Professor in the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and author, most recently, of Between Resistance, Sharia Law and Demo-Islamic Politics (2020).