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Carr Center Discussion Paper Series, 2020-001
In his recent discussion paper, Mathias Risse reflects on the 2019 protests in Chile from a a standpoint of political theory and the human rights movement.
This paper was written…
Erica Chenoweth examines how nonviolent social movements can succeed against the rise of fictional narratives in the media.
From the Arab Spring to the Black…
Since the inauguration of Donald Trump, there has been substantial and ongoing protest against the Administration. Street demonstrations are some of the most visible forms of…
How do ‘people power’ movements succeed when modest proportions of the population participate? Here we propose that the effects of social movements increase as they gain momentum…
Research featuring Carr Center's Erica Chenoweth.
Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of…
See the op-ed in The Boston Globe by Carr Senior Fellow .
An authoritarian…