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Civil Resistance, Causes and Trajectories

Sat, September 12, 2:00 to 3:30pm MDT (2:00 to 3:30pm MDT), TBA

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

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The international politics of the 21st century has been characterized by a remarkable degree of contentious political mobilization. The Color Revolutions, the Arab Spring Uprisings, and recent protests from Hong Kong to Venezuela reflect, to varying degrees, the transformative potential of civil resistance, the ability of autocratic regimes to resist pressure from below, and the destructive forces that may be unleashed when popular demands are met with unyielding repression.

In turn, contentious politics and civil research is flourishing. Scholarship in this field investigates a number of questions about the nature of popular resistance and democratizing movements, of both academic and policy relevance. Major topics include, among others:
- What motivates individuals to engage in high-risk mobilization?
- How do opposition activists choose between nonviolent and violent tactics, and how do these tactical choices shape movement outcomes?
- How does the military respond to mass protest, and how does the opposition predict and/or influence military involvement?
- How does international engagement alter these dynamics?

Scholars on this panel engage with these and other related questions. Included papers are both theoretically and empirically diverse. Theoretically, panelists variously seek to explain the regime, the opposition, and the military’s behavior, and investigate variables at the individual, state, and international levels. Methodologically speaking, panelists substantiate their work with a mix of qualitative case studies and large-N quantitative analysis.

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