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  • Relation-Building and Contained Radicalization in the Gaza Pullout Campaign

    Series series Elements in Contentious Politics
    This Element explores the Jewish Settlement Movement's campaign against the Gaza Pullout as a case of contained radicalization. Despite the presence of militant worldviews and propensities for aggression, as factors identified in the literature as drivers of political violence, the campaign saw little violence. The Element offers a detailed analysis of the history of relation-building within the ... Read more

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  • Israeli Politics and the First Palestinian Intifada

    Political Opportunities, Framing Processes and Contentious Politics

    by Eitan Alimi ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics
    As the Palestinian/Israeli conflict continues to be of major importance in the Middle East, this book employs a new agency approach to understanding the conflict, examining the unprecedented challenge mounted by Palestinian insurgents to Israeli military rule in the West Bank and Gaza between 1987 and 1992. In particular the book discusses how the Palestinians learned about their occupier and how ... Read more

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  • The Dynamics of Radicalization

    A Relational and Comparative Perspective

    Why is it that some social movements engaged in contentious politics experience radicalization whereas others do not? The Dynamics of Radicalization offers an innovative reply by investigating how and when social movement organizations switch from a nonviolent mode of contention to a violent one. Moving beyond existing explanations that posit aggressive motivations, grievances or violence-prone ... Read more

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  • Popular Contention, Regime, and Transition

    Arab Revolts in Comparative Global Perspective

    Although episodes of resistance and contention in authoritarian and authoritarian-like regimes constitute the majority of mass political movements worldwide, the theories and models of popular contention have been developed on liberal-democratic assumptions. Prompted by the recent revolutionary waves in the Middle East and North Africa, Popular Contention, Regime, and Transition offers a deeper ... Read more

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  • Bringing Down Divides

    Special Issue Commemorating the Work of Gregory Maney (1967 - 2017)

    Edited by Lisa Leitz, Eitan Y. Alimi ...
    Series Book 43 - Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change
    The 43rd Volume of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change continues the series' tradition of publishing peer reviewed chapters, which advance our understanding of peace, political contention, and social change, by offering new ways to research and theorize attempts to challenge divides. Dedicated to the memory of Gregory M. Maney, Bringing Down Divides engages with and continues Maney ... Read more

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  • Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions

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