"It is not an easy task to capture a moving target, but Nepstad has successfully done so, having effectively woven the different threads of this emerging field together. Nonviolent Struggle provides a comprehensive overview of this still under-researched phenomenon and in that sense is clearly one of the foundational academic works. Nonviolent Struggle is a must-read for scholars, students, practitioners and anyone with a general interest in conflict transformation, peace studies, social change and social movements." -- Siddharth Tripathi, Democratization "After languishing for years as a small and somewhat ghettoized area of research, the study of non-violent contention has blossomed in the last decade into one of the liveliest subfields within the broader study of contentious politics. And yet, to date, there has been no single text that surveys and summarizes the mushrooming work in this important area. There is now. Even better, that volume has been authored by, Sharon Nepstad, one of the key figures contributing to the scholarly renaissance in the field. Must reading for anyone who hopes to understand the dynamics of this especially significant form of contentious politics.

" --Doug McAdam, Stanford University and co-author of Deeply Divided: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Post-War America "In her latest book, Sharon Erickson Nepstad provides a sweeping and thoughtful survey of nonviolent resistance-from philosophical roots to historical and contemporary applications, and from theoretical foundations to unanswered empirical questions that remain. This book will certainly be an invaluable resource for students and researchers of nonviolent struggle for years to come." --Erica Chenoweth, University of Denver "This is a long-overdue and badly-needed book for this rapidly expanding subfield. For nearly twenty years I've taught an upper-division undergraduate seminar on nonviolence and this is just the kind of text I've been looking for but have yet been able to find." --Stephen Zunes, University of San Francisco "Sociologist Nepstad (New Mexico) intended her book as a primer on the variety of forms and strategic choices facing those who are interested in resistance to authority as part of achieving social justice. This makes it highly useful as a textbook for courses in human rights, peace studies, or social movements. But it it also a strong introduction to the theories about, history of, and research on, nonviolence for researchers whose work has bordered on but not included this." --M.

M. Ferree, University of Wisconsin-Madison, lCHOICE "The book provides a clear summary of research on nonviolent struggle and a good introduction to nonviolence and nonviolent action for undergraduates in courses on social movements and peace and conflict." --Kurt Schock, Rutgers University Newark, American Journal of Sociology.