Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present

This book, edited by Adam Roberts and Timothy Garton Ash, features analytical case studies on non-violent action across the world, including Gandhi's India, the US Civil Rights Movement, Northern Ireland, Soviet East-Central Europe, South Africa, the Baltic States, Tiananmen Square, Georgia's Rose Revolution, Ukraine's Orange Revolution, and Burma.

It explores key questions about the successes, failures, and interactions of civil resistance with violent action and state power.

The 2011 paperback edition includes a new foreword addressing the Arab Spring.