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Masri, Sfawan, Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly, New York, Colombia University Press, 2019 , pp. 416 pb

The author traces the history of Tunisia's politics back to the 19th century and early reforms relating to religion, education and women's rights, to explain the relatively liberal context in the 21st century.  Masri therefore argues that Tunisia is not a model for other Arab states, but an exception, given the general role of Islam in shaping education and social and political agendas. The book draws on interviews as well as historical analysis and personal knowledge.

Moore, Barrington, The Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World, London, Allen Lane, 1967

Chapter 6 ‘Democracy in Asia: India and the price of peaceful change’ argues that Gandhi was ‘the spokesman of the Indian peasant and village artisan’ (p. 178) and comments critically on Gandhi’s desire to return to ‘an idealized past’ of the village community purged of untouchability, and failure to challenge interests of landed aristocracy.

Karol, K., Visa for Poland, London, MacGibbon and Kee, 1959 , pp. 259

Account by a Polish journalist (who left in 1949) of the evolution of destalinization from above and demands for democratization from below in 1955-56, and the October 1956 revolution. Karol explains the background context of Poland’s wartime experiences and the Communist seizure of power and in Part Two assesses Poland a year after October 1956.

, People Building Peace II: Successful Stories of Civil Society, ed. von Tongeren, Paul; Brenk, Malin; Hellema, Marte; Verhoeven, Juliette, Boulder CO, Lynne Rienner, 2005 , pp. 695

ALTSEAN Burma, , ALTSEAN Burma (Alternative ASEAN network on Burma),

which includes special materials on the Saffron Revolution and a monthly Burma bulletin.

Nash, June, We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us: Dependency and Exploitation in Bolivian Tin Mines, New York, Columbia University Press, 1979 , pp. 363

Includes material on strikes, demonstrations, hunger strikes and road blocks.

Linn, Ruth, Conscience at War: The Israeli Soldier as a Moral Critic, Albany NY, State University of New York Press, 1996 , pp. 245

Clark, Howard, An Obstacle to Progress, 2449 , pp. smaller than 0

Campaign of the U’wa people of Colombia to prevent oil drilling.

Epstein, Barbara, Political Protest and Cultural Revolution: Nonviolent Direct Action in the 1970s and 1980s, Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1991 , pp. 327

Covers environmental/peace/feminist protest in the USA, analysing key ideas and organising methods, as well as evolution of some major campaigns, for example against the Seabrook nuclear energy plant and the Livermore nuclear weapons laboratory.

Stalley, Phillip; Yang, Dongning, An Emerging Environmental Movement in China?, 186 2006 , pp. 333-356

Reid, Ben, The Philippine democratic uprising and the contradictions of neoliberalism: EDSA II, 22 5 2001 , pp. 777-793

Analysis of Estrada regime and the protests that led to his overthrow and replacement by Aroyo. The article is also a critique of western commentators who deplore the popular uprising, and an attack on a neoliberal conception of democracy. The author concludes that the 2001 rebellion was ultimately an elite controlled process, transferring power to a different faction of the elite, but also a model of popular mobilization and empowerment.

, Repression, Exile and Democracy: Uruguayan Culture, ed. Sosnowski, Saul; Popkin, Louise, Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1993 , pp. 272

Alexander, Peter; Sinwell, Luke; Lekgowa, Thapelo; Mmope, Botsang; Xezwi, Bongani, Marikana: A View from the Mountain and a Case to Answer, Johannesburg, Jacana Media, 2013 , pp. 144

Interviews with strikers who took part in protests and written from their viewpoint.

Weyler, Rex, Blood of the Land: The Government and Corporate War Against the American Indian Movement, 1982 New York, Random House/Vintage, 1984 , pp. 304

Walker, Charles, Culebra: Nonviolent action and the US Navy, In A. Paul Hare, Herbert H. Blumberg, Liberation without Violence: A Third Party Approach (A. 5. Nonviolent Intervention and Accompaniment) London, Rex Collings, 1977 , pp. 178-195

Resistance to the use of Puerto Rican island as a US Navy bombing and gunnery range. Recounts direct action by Puerto Ricans and development of transnational action, involving US Quakers, to build chapel on the island.

Boyle, Peter, Students Lead New Wave of Democracy Protest in Thailand, , pp. smaller than 0

Reports on the wave of student protests across the country since the July 18 rally in front of the Democracy Monument. Focuses particularly on a protest on 19 August by thousands at Thammasat University in Bangkok (which has iconic significance in the history of Thai pro-democracy struggles), the largest of many student-led protests that day.

Nancy, Gregory, The Gay and Lesbian Movement in the United States, In Bill Moyer, JoAnn McAllister, Mary Lou Finley, Steven Soifer, Doing Democracy: The MAP Model for Organizing Social Movements (K.1. Planning and Development of Campaigns) Gabriola Island, New Society Publishers, 2001 , pp. 152-164

Analyses the US LGBT movement from 1945-2000 using the model of the Movement Action Plan developed by Moyer.

Aguirre, Xavier; Ajangiz, Rafael; Ibarra, Pedro; de Rozas, Rafael, La insumisión, un singular ciclo histórico de desobediencia civil, Madrid, Technos, 1998 , pp. 171

Primarily an account of the movement of conscientious objection and ‘insumision’ in Spain, but including analysis and proposals. It was written by university teachers who joined the movement and assisted from inside. Published in the final stage of the movement, when the end of conscription was announced. but there were still objectors jailed in military prisons.

Cunningham, Maura, Good girls revolt: the future of feminism in China, 33 4 2016 , pp. 18-22

It considers past, present and future prospects of female activism in China and how it is thriving despite the current political leadership in the country, predominantly patriarchal and directed at maintaining social stability, thus suppressing all forms of activism.

Sharkey, Noel, Killer Robots, , , pp. 16-18

Sharkey, Professor of AI and robotics at Sheffield University, Chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control  and also spokesperson for the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, sketches in the historical background to the evolution of Autonomous Weapons Systems, and dispels 'five myths about AWS'. He also briefly explains the evolution of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots and how it had been keeping the issue 'on the table' at the UN since 2014.

See also: Chan, Melissa, 'Death to the Killer Robots', Guardian Weekly, 19 April 2019, pp. 30-31.

Report on role of Jody Williams and Mary Wareham, two leading activists in the Campaign to Ban Landmines, in promoting the new movement, the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, which they recognize to be a much harder goal to achieve. Chan notes that Israel is already using advanced autonomous technology, for example to patrol the Gaza border. the US is testing advances in the technology, and Russia wants to create a battalion of killer robots. The campaigners were in Berlin because the German government had indicated concern about the issue, but had not been consistent, so their aim was to put pressure on Germany to act. 

, Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin, ed. Carbado, Devon; Weise, Donald, San Francisco, Cleis Press, 2003 , pp. 354

Rustin was an influential adviser to MLK and the coordinator of the 1963 March on Washington. These writings on civil rights and gay politics from 1942 to 1986 include his important 1964 essay ‘From Protest to Politics’ arguing for a policy shift towards mainstream politics through voter registration and involvement with trade unions. Rustin’s later attempts to achieve his goals through the Democratic Party made him a contentious figure in some radical circles.

Garton Ash, Timothy, We the People: The Revolution of 89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague, London, Granta Books in association con Penguin, 1990 , pp. 156

(Published in New York by Random House as The Magic Lantern).

Kuzio, Taras, From Kuchma to Yushchenko, 38 2 (June) 2005 , pp. 229-244

, Dynamics of Conflict and Displacement in Papua, Indonesia, ed. Hedman, Eva-Lotta, Working Paper No. 42 Oxford, Refugee Studies Paper, 2007 , pp. 75

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