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The Limits of Strategic Nonviolence
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The Limits of Nonviolence
Patrick Van Inwegen
Department of Political Science Whitworth College
300 W. Hawthorne Dr.
Spokane, WA 99251
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Presented at the International Studies Association Annual Conference
San Diego
24 March 2006
Abstract
This study attempts to reconnect with the core concept of nonviolent action – power relationships – and analyzes the power relationships of several foreign policy and civil conflict scenarios. By contrasting these relationships, the paper argues that nonviolence is an appropriate tool in only limited foreign policy situations (characterized by human rights issues or reversing certain types of foreign occupations) and civil conflicts where extreme tactics are unlikely. Nonviolent action is not likely to be a successful tactic in third party action to halt an aggressive power, regime change, and intervention in civil wars at the international level and domestically when a group is too small, poor or targeted for ethnic cleansing or genocide.
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The Limits of Nonviolence
Patrick Van Inwegen
Department of Political Science Whitworth College
300 W. Hawthorne Dr.
Spokane, WA 99251
## email not listed ##
Presented at the International Studies Association Annual Conference
San Diego
24 March 2006
Abstract
This study attempts to reconnect with the core concept of nonviolent action – power relationships
– and analyzes the power relationships of several foreign policy and civil conflict scenarios. By
contrasting these relationships, the paper argues that nonviolence is an appropriate tool in only
limited foreign policy situations (characterized by human rights issues or reversing certain types
of foreign occupations) and civil conflicts where extreme tactics are unlikely. Nonviolent action
is not likely to be a successful tactic in third party action to halt an aggressive power, regime
change, and intervention in civil wars at the international level and domestically when a group is
too small, poor or targeted for ethnic cleansing or genocide.
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