Civil Resistance and Power Politics
The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present
Edited by Adam Roberts and Timothy Garton Ash
Author Information
Edited by Adam Roberts, Professor, Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford
Professor Sir Adam Roberts is Senior Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University, and Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. His main academic interests are in the fields of international security, international organizations, and international law (including the laws of war). He has also worked extensively on the role of civil resistance against dictatorial regimes and foreign rule, and on the history of thought about international relations. In 1968-81 he was Lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). In 1981-6 he was Alastair Buchan Reader in International Relations and Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford. In 1986-2007 he was Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University and Fellow of Balliol College.
Professor Timothy Garton Ash is the author of eight books of political writing or 'history of the present' which have charted the transformation of Europe over the last quarter-century. He is Professor of European Studies in the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His essays appear regularly in the New York Review of Books and he writes a weekly column in the Guardian which is widely syndicated in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Throughout the nineteen eighties, he reported and analysed the emancipation of Central Europe from communism in contributions to the New York Review of Books, the Independent, the Times, and the Spectator.
Contributors:
Ervand Abrahamian is Distinguished Professor of History at City University of New York.
Mark R. Beissinger is Professor of Politics at Princeton University, specializing in Russian and post-Soviet politics.
Judith Brown is Beit Professor of Commonwealth History at Oxford University and Professorial Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.
April Carter is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies, Coventry University.
Howard Clark is Chair of War Resisters' International and Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies at Coventry University.
Richard English is Professor of Politics at Queen's University.
Christina Fink is a Lecturer at the International Sustainable Development Studies
Institute in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Merle Goldman is Professor Emerita at Boston University and Associate at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University.
Carlos Huneeus is Professor of the Institute of International Studies at the University of Chile and Executive Director of Corporation CERC.
Stephen Jones is Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Mount Holyoke College. He has written over 50 articles and chapters on Georgian history and politics.
Mark Kramer is Director of the Harvard Cold War Studies Project at Harvard University and a Senior Fellow at Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.
Tom Lodge is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Limerick.
Charles S. Maier is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University where he teaches European and international history.
Kenneth Maxwell is Director of the Brazil Studies Program at Harvard University's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and a Visiting Professor in the Department of History.
Doug McAdam is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University.
Amado Mendoza is Associate Professor in Political Science and International Studies at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City.
Adam Roberts is Senior Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University, and Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.
Aleksander Smolar is Chairman of the Board of the Stefan Batory Foundation in Warsaw and a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris.
Ivan Vejvoda is Executive Director of the Balkan Trust for Democracy.
Kieran Williams is Instructor in Politics at Drake University.
Andrew Wilson is Senior Lecturer in Ukrainian Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University College London.
