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Summer 2008
"Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 1, volume 33
By Maria Stephan, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program/Intrastate Conflict Program and Erica Chenoweth, Research Fellow, International Security Program
The historical record indicates that nonviolent campaigns have been more successful than armed campaigns in achieving ultimate goals in political struggles, even when used against similar opponents and in the face of repression. Nonviolent campaigns are more likely to win legitimacy, attract widespread domestic and international support, neutralize the opponent's security forces, and compel loyalty shifts among erstwhile opponent supporters than are armed campaigns, which enjoin the active support of a relatively small number of people, offer the opponent a justification for violent counterattacks, and are less likely to prompt loyalty shifts and defections. An original, aggregate data set of all known major nonviolent and violent resistance campaigns from 1900 to 2006 is used to test these claims. These dynamics are further explored in case studies of resistance campaigns in Southeast Asia that have featured periods of both violent and nonviolent resistance.
November 6, 2006
Ashton Carter appointed to Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice’s International Security Advisory Board
Press Release
At a November 6, 2006 swearing-in at the State Department, Preventive Defense Project Co-Director and Kennedy School of Government professor Ashton B. Carter became a member of Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice’s International Security Advisory Board (ISAB) which is charged with providing advice on a wide range of issues affecting national security.
Summer 2004
Weak and Failing States: Critical new Security Issues
Journal Article, Turkish Policy Quarterly, issue 2, volume 3
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
Rotberg argues that failing states are a particular worry to the security of the twenty-first century.
February 28, 2004
To Save Haiti, Aristide Must Go
Op-Ed, The Boston Globe
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
To Save Haiti
January 12, 2004
Aristide's Failed Promise
Op-Ed, The Boston Globe
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
TWO HUNDRED years old and still suffering -- that is the sad tale of Haitiand Haitians during this poignant bicentennial month.
January, 2003
State Failure and State Weakness in a Time of Terror
Book
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution, Nasrin Dadmehr, Former Research Fellow, Intrastate Conflict Program, 2000-2001 and Erin Jenne, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2000-2002
The threat of terror has given the problem of failed states an unprecedented immediacy and importance. In the past, failure had a primarily humanitarian dimension, with fewer implications for peace and security. Now nation-states that fail, or may do so, pose dangers to themselves, to their neighbors, and to people around the globe. The contributors to this volume develop an innovative theory of state failure that classifies and categorizes states along a continuum from weak to failed to collapsed.
January, 2003
Haiti's Turmoil: Politics and Policy Under Aristide and Clinton
Report
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
Summer 2002
The New Nature of Nation-State Failure
Journal Article, The Washington Quarterly, issue 3, volume 25
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
Nation-states fail because they can no longer deliver positive political goods to their people.
