This essay examines the role of nonviolent civil resistance in Ukraine during the 2022 Russian invasion. Drawing from the notions of nonviolence strategy, resilience and peoples power, it illustrates how nonviolence can undermine an aggressors military and political objectives while strengthening the ...
A day after intense fighting in eastern Ukraine, the region remained on the brink of civil war as a diplomatic initiative to end the confrontation floundered, with Russia insisting the rebels holding much of the south and east of the country should be included in talks on equal terms wit...
Because of the grinding war of attrition in Ukraine, analysts say Russia has been unable to support Syria’s government as forcefully as it has in the past. Russian air strikes that attempted to slow the rebel advance have been relatively sparse. ...
The rebels seized Aleppo's airport and started pushing into towns and villages in the countryside around the city on Sunday after leaving piles of dead government soldiers in the streets. Observers said the rebel forces were often met with little to no resistance by regime forces, but by M...
The war in Ukraine has tied down Russian forces, who may have the upper hand in Ukraine but are hemorrhaging troops (why else needthousands of North Korean soldiers?) and have relocated battlefield resources away from Syria. Russia has already responded with airstrikes, but it...
Civil War DEPRESSING MILITARY STATUS OF WWI It was attacked by the armies of all the capitalist world. Moscow and Leningrad and the central part of Russia were separated by attacking armies from their chief food and fuel bases for two and a half years. The granary of the Ukraine, the coal...
The second was the escalation of peasant uprisings, which had commenced in 1918, but were fueled by the disbandment of local self-government in Ukraine and the demobilization of the Red Army. The last was the continued resistance of White Army, Islamic (Basmachi), and autonomous nationalist ...
2011. Nonviolent Revolutions: Civil Resistance in the Late 20th Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press... S Nepstad - 《Democratization》 被引量: 101发表: 2011年 Civil Society and Democratization The current crisis in Ukraine raises key questions about the relationship between civil society, prote...
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Third, Russia, whose intervention in the war in 2015 essentially turned the tide in Assad’s favor, is now deeply mired in its own war in Ukraine and does not have the same ability to come to Assad’s defense as it did a decade ago. ...