PSCI6355 - Civil Resistance

PSCI 6355 Civil Resistance (3 semester credit hours) This graduate seminar explores cutting edge research on the origins, dynamics, and long-term outcomes of primarily nonviolent civil resistance movements, with a primary focus on movements in authoritarian regimes. Topics include the theoretical logic of nonviolent resistance, intersections of violent and nonviolent action, government repression, movements' success and failure, and impacts on democracy, public health, and social order. (3-0) Y