Civil Resistance and Democracy Promotion

<p>This book examines transnational civil society-based democracy-promoting resistance activities in Asia in a global era focusing on the cases of Myanmar and Palestine. </p><p>The work contributes to our understanding of the nexus between globalization power and democracy by examining: (i) the ways in which globalization/global governance are influencing various resistance practices of the civil societies in Myanmar and Palestine and what this means for local democracy promotion; and (ii) the ways in which these two civil societies influence and have a democracy-promoting impact on their respective communities. It is guided by the overarching question of how civil society-based resistance contributes to local democracy in Myanmar and Palestine. The book is structured as follows: both civil resistance cases begin with an overview of each country’s non-violent resistance history and the findings are then presented for the two cases i.e. the pro-democracy movements in the Saffron uprising in Myanmar and the Bil’in village struggle against the Israeli Security Barrier plans to build through their farmlands. Then follows a presentation of the life-story interview made with two members from the respective campaigns. A concluding chapter proposes some new theoretical insights for how civil resistance can impact on democracy. The book empirically and theoretically contributes to our understanding of how civil society-based resistance and democracy interrelate in a global era. </p><p>This book will be of much interest to students of civil resistance democracy Asian studies Middle Eastern studies and international relations in general.</p>