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In this Presidential Address, I lay out three research streams in which my findings were valid when published, but which may have been time-bound to a particular period in global…
Pages 1-14
From 7 October 2023 to 7 June 2024, the Crowd Counting Consortium recorded nearly 12,400 pro-Palestine protests and over 2,000 pro-Israel protests in the United States. Since…
Vol. 86, Issue 2, Pages 238-241
In the years since the onset of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement—and especially since the Ferguson uprising—scholars have tried to understand how the movement has affected…
Civil resistance is a form of struggle in which unarmed civilians mobilize using a series of coordinated methods like protest, non-cooperation, and the building of alternative…
Vol. 26, Pages 55-77
Over the past two decades, there has been growing scholarly interest in nonviolent resistance—a method of conflict in which unarmed people mobilize collective protests, strikes,…
The backlash against feminist progress that’s overtaking the U.S. is part of a global trend. Free and empowered women are a threat to authoritarianism worldwide—and the autocrats…
Over the past two years, and in collaboration with Dr. Erica Chenoweth and Dr. Zoe Marks of Harvard University, USIP has been collecting cross-national data on the frequency and…
Today, more people than ever before are conscious of a simple fact: fundamental changes in the global system are urgently required to keep our planet habitable. We have promising…
Nonviolent action (NVA) campaigns are more frequent now than ever before, yet we know comparatively little about how the demographic composition of nonviolent movements shapes…
Vol. 60, Issue 1, Pages 3-8
In the past decade, myriad studies have explored the effects of nonviolent resistance (NR) on outcomes including revolutionary success (short-term and long-term) and…