Analyzing social movements, nonviolent resistance, and the state / Hank Johnston -- Nonviolence and social movements: elaborations -- Performative power in nonviolent tactical adaptation to violence : evidence from U.S. civil rights movement campaigns / Larry W. Isaac -- Asserting land rights : rural land struggles in India and Brazil / Kurt Schock -- Defections or disobedience? assessing the consequences of security force collaboration or disengagement in nonviolent movements / Sharon Erickson Nepstad -- Protest waves and authoritarian regimes : repression and protest outcomes / James Franklin -- Bound by the red lines? : the perils and promises of moderate mobilization under authoritarianism / Dana M. Moss -- Nonviolence and social movements : engagements -- How the effectiveness of nonviolent action is the wrong question for activists, academics, and everyone else / David S. Meyer -- Three common objections to the study of nonviolent resistance / Erica Chenoweth -- The missing unarmed revolution : why civil resistance did not work in Bahrain / Daniel P. Ritter -- Riots as civil resistance? rethinking the dynamics of nonviolent struggle / Benjamin S. Case -- Authoritarianism, nonviolent activism, and Egypt's Kefaya movement / Killian Clarke -- Index