'Smart Repression' at Work: How Oppressors Adapt to the Challenges of Nonviolent Resistance?

• In Event: New Research on Political Activism and Nonviolent Resistance

Brief Overview

I argue that states adapt new tactics to mitigate the risk of resistance, learning from the past and resistances elsewhere. I look at the relationship between states` diversionary tactics and the likelihood of civil resistance occurrence and success.

Author

• Ilker Kalin, Wayne State University