Erica Chenoweth

Erica Chenoweth is an assistant professor of government at Wesleyan University and a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. She is co-author, with Maria J. Stephan, of Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict (2011). She hosts the blog Rational Insurgent and is on Twitter at @EricaChenoweth.

Did the Libyan uprising have to be violent?

Could nonviolent resistance have succeeded in Libya? Here are four points worth considering. 1) The movement was fairly spontaneous, unlike the highly coordinated campaign in Egypt.More

August 25, 2011
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