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Davis, Nathaniel, The Last Two Years of Salvador Allende, London, I.B. Taurus, 1985 , pp. 480

Account of evolving crisis by former US ambassador to Chile.

Bamyeh, Mohammed, The Tunisian Revolution: Initial Reflections, Arab Studies Institute, 2011

Part 2 of the article, published on 21 January 2011, is available at http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/472/the-tunisian-revolution_initial-reflections_part-2.

Buhlungu, Sakhela, The Anti-Privatisation Forum: A Profile of a Post-Apartheid Social Movement, Johannesburg, University of the Witwatersrand, 2004 , pp. 22

A case study for the University of KwaZulu-Natal project Globalisation, Marginalisation and new Social Movements in post-Apartheid South Africa.

Peace, Roger, A Just and Lasting Peace: The US Peace Movement from the Cold War to Desert Storm, Chicago IL, The Noble Press, 1991 , pp. 345

Peace, a writer/activist, documents the growth of the peace and justice movement in the US, with particular focus on the 1980s. Areas covered include anti-nuclear campaigning and campaigns for justice in Latin America. Discusses also debates and controversies within the movement.

Chang, Doris, Women’s Movements in Twentieth Century Taiwan, Champaign IL, University of Illinois Press, 2009 , pp. 248

Discusses mixed fortunes of women’s movement in changing political contexts, and how Taiwanese women made selective use of western feminist theory.

Tomos, Angharad, Realising a Dream, In Simon Blanchard, David Morley, What’s This Channel Four? An Alternative Report, London, Comedia Publishing Group, 1982 , pp. 192 pp. smaller than 0

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. 

Arnold, Guy, Kenyatta and the Politics of Kenya, London, Dent, 1974 , pp. 226

Study of the political figure who was central to the struggle for independence from 1928 and became head of Kenya’s first African government.

Bunce, Valerie; Wolchik, Sharon, Azerbaijan’s 2005 Parliamentary Elections: A Failed Attempt at Transition, Stanford CA, Center on Democracry, Development and the Rule of Law (Stanford University), 2008 , pp. 52

See also Valerie J. Bunce, Sharon L. Wolchik, Defeating Authoritarian Leaders in Post-Communist Countries (D. II.1. Comparative Assessments) , pp. 178-90.

Ngwane, Mwalimu, The Power in the Writer: Collected essays on Culture, Democracy and Development in Africa, Bamenda and Oxford, Langaa and African Books Collective, 2008 , pp. 196

Chapter 14, pp. 81-95, specifically discusses the electoral performance of the opposition and criticises its lack of internal democracy.

Raby, David, Fascism and Resistance in Portugal: Communists, Liberals and Military Dissidents in the Opposition to Salazar, 1941-1974, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1988 , pp. 288

Analyses various stages of resistance, the role of the Communist Party throughout, of ‘military populism’ in the 1950s, of socialists and dissenting Catholics in the 1960s, and the impact of the colonial wars.

Zimmer, Benjamin, Budding Hope: Lebanon's Cedar Revolution, 27 3 (22 November) 2007 pp. smaller than 0

Discusses the mass protests and Syrian troop withdrawal in 2005.

Hayes, Graeme, Environmental Protest and the State in France, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2002 , pp. 246

Lynd, Alice, We Won’t Go: Personal Accounts of War Objectors, Boston, Beacon Press, 1998 , pp. 332

Deals with conscientious objection in US during the Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Muñoz-Lamartine, Ernesto, Chile: Student Leaders Reinvent the Movement, Fall 2011 pp. smaller than 0

Account of talk by Giorgio Jackson, President of the Catholic University’s Student Association in Chile.

Hutt, Michael, Drafting the Nepal Constitution, 1990, 31 (November) 1991 , pp. 1020-1039

Castells, Manuel, Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age, Cambridge, Polity, 2012 , pp. 200

Well known theorist of global networks examines the mass uprisings across the world in 2011, giving account of events in ‘Arab Spring’ and the reaction to the bank collapse and austerity policies in the west in Iceland, Spain, Greece and the USA, and stressing the causal role of the internet.

, The Occupy Handbook, ed. Byrne, Janet, New York, Back Bay Books, 2012 , pp. 560

Includes discussion of why the 1% have such a dominant economic position.

Rochon, Thomas, Mobilizing for Peace, Princetown NJ, Princetown University Press, 1988 , pp. 232

Wide-ranging analysis of West European anti-missile/nuclear disarmament campaigns 1979-1986, incorporating discussion of social movement theory and the wider political context. Focuses particularly on Britain, the Netherlands, West Germany and France. It includes great deal of information on organizations, campaigns and types of action, as well as many useful sources and references.

Feminist Review, , Special issue on ‘Black British Feminism’, 108 1 2014 , pp. 1-114

Looks back at pioneering issue 30 years earlier on black feminism (no. 17, 1984) and examines role of black feminists today and the mobilizing impact of cyber feminism.

Fay, Marie; Morrissey, Mike; Smith, Marie, Northern Ireland’s Troubles: The Human Costs, London and Stirling, Virginia and Pluto Press, 1999 , pp. 229

Part I of this book sets out the context of the conflict in Northern Ireland, including a chronology of key events from the opening of the first Parliament there in 1921 to the Provisionl IRA ceasefire in September 1998, considers political, social and economic facets of the conflict, and reviews the principal interpretations of its causes. Part II examines the effects of the violence on individuals and groups and argues the need to address them if there is to be peace in the longer term.

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