List of Figures List of Tables Notes on Contributors 1. Analyzing Social Movements, Nonviolent Resistance, and the State ( Hank Johnston ) Part I: Nonviolence and Social Movements: Elaborations 2. Performative Power in Nonviolent Tactical Adaptation to Violence: Evidence from U.S. Civil Rights Movement Campaigns ( Larry W. Isaac ) 3. Asserting Land Rights: Rural Land Struggles in India and Brazil ( Kurt Schock ) 4. Defections or Disobedience? Assessing the Consequences of Security Force Collaboration or Disengagement in Nonviolent Movements ( Sharon Erickson Nepstad ) 5.

Protest Waves and Authoritarian Regimes: Repression and Protest Outcomes ( James Franklin ) 6. Bound by the Red Lines?The Perils and Promises of Moderate Mobilization under Authoritarianism ( Dana M. Moss ) Part II: Nonviolence and Social Movements: Engagements 7. How the Effectiveness of Nonviolent Action is the Wrong Question for Activists, Academics, and Everyone Else ( David S. Meyer ) 8. Three Common Objections to the Study of Nonviolent Resistance ( Erica Chenoweth ) 9. The Missing Unarmed Revolution: Why Civil Resistance Did Not Work in Bahrain ( Daniel P. Ritter ) 10.

Riots as Civil Resistance? Rethinking the Dynamics of Nonviolent Struggle ( Benjamin S. Case ) 11. Authoritarianism, Nonviolent Activism, and Egypt's Kefaya Movement ( Killian Clarke ) Index.