Anika Locke Binnendijk
Binnendijk, Anika; Marovic, Ivan, Power and persuasion: Nonviolent strategies to influence state security forces in Serbia (2000) and Ukraine (2004)
39 3 (Special Issue ‘Democratic Revolutions in Post-Communist States’, ed. Taras Kuzio)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.