This book examines the relevance of nonviolent tactics to current debates about political action and political thought. Nonviolent political action has played a significant role in achieving social and political change in the last century. Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King were prominent proponents of nonviolence. Nonviolent political action or civil resistance has also been central to toppling communist regimes in Eastern Europe and to pro-democracy popular movements in Serbia, Georgia and the Ukraine. By scrutinising the theories behind nonviolence, such as the role of the state, the rule of law and the nature of social and political power, Atack establishes nonviolence as a credible theme within Western political thought.

Iain Atack is Lecturer at the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin and editor of The Ethics of Debt 'Forgiveness': Jewish, Christian and Muslim Perspectives on the Third World Debt Crisis. Read less

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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• Publication Date: June 12, 2012
• Pages: 224
• ISBN13: 9780748633784
• Item Weight: 360 grams
• Original Price: 24.99 GBP
• Edition: N/A
• Binding: Paperback