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Power and persuasion: Nonviolent strategies to influence state security forces in Serbia (2000) and Ukraine (2004)

Author(s): Anika Locke Binnendijk, Ivan Marovic

In: Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Vol 39, No 3 (Special Issue ‘Democratic Revolutions in Post-Communist States’, ed. Taras Kuzio), 2006, pp. 411-429

Describes explicit strategies developed in both Serbia and Ukraine to increase costs of repression and reduce the willingness of the security forces to resort to violence. By combining deterrence and persuasion the organisers were able to avert major repression in 2000 and 2004.