Political Mobilization through Violence and Non-violence

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

This panel examines the causes, consequence, and dynamics of political mobilization across democracies and autocracies in Southeast Asia. The panel focuses, first, on conflicts and violent forms of political mobilization. Specifically, the papers seek to explain the absence or presence of sectarian conflicts in the Philippines, the survival strategies of the post-coup regime in Myanmar, and territorial conflicts and resolutions along the Cambodia’s borders with Vietnam and Thailand. The panel then turns the analytical focus on other non-violent political mobilization by examining anti-foreign protests in Vietnam and the tactical diffusion of human rights movement in Indonesia and Argentina.

Sub Unit

• Related Groups / Southeast Asian Politics

Individual Presentations

• Facing Neighbors: Territorial Conflict Irresolution as Relational Management - Kathrin Reed, Ursinus College

• What Affects Public Support for Anti-foreign Protests under Authoritarian Rule? - Mai Thanh Truong, Marquette University

• Natural Resources and Conflict in Post-coup Myanmar - Renard J Sexton, Emory University; Don S Grasse, University of Southern California

• Declining Violence and Electoral Competition in the Philippines - Sol Iglesias, University of the Philippines

Chair

• Ben Smith University of Florida

Discussants

• Meredith L. Weiss SUNY, University at Albany

• Nathanael Gratias Sumaktoyo National University of Singapore