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IMPORTANT NOTE: We have many translated publications that are not listed on this page. To find our translated publications, please visit the Translations section of our web site or click on one of the following languages: Arabic, Azeri, Belarusian, Burmese, Burma (Chin), Burma (Jing-paw), Burma (Karen), Burma (Mon), Chinese (Mandarin), Dutch, English, Estonian, Farsi, French, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Thai, Tibetan, Ukrainian

Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice and 21st Century Potential
by Gene Sharp


This groundbreaking new book builds on fifty years of Dr. Sharp’s academic research and practical experience working with nonviolent struggle movements around the world. In particular, Waging Nonviolent Struggle provides a theoretical framework for understanding this technique of action as well as unprecedented information about how nonviolent struggle can be strategically planned. It also contains twenty-three case accounts of how nonviolent struggle has been used in the twentieth century. 598 pp. 2005
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On Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: Thinking About the Fundamentals
by Robert Helvey


On Strategic Nonviolent Conflict delves into the question of how to build a strategy for nonviolent struggle. Covering a variety of topics--such as ways to identify a movement's objectives, preparing a strategic estimate for a nonviolent struggle, and operational planning considerations--this publication contains insights on the similarities between military and nonviolent strategy. It represents a major new contribution to this field of study. Additional topics covered in the book include psychological operations and propaganda, contaminants that may affect the efficiency of a nonviolent movement, and providing consultations and training for members of movements and organizations. For more information click here. 178 pp. 2004

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Ад ДЫКТАТУРЫ да ДЭМАКРАТЫІ -- Джын Шарп
From Dictatorship to Democracy (Belarusian)
by Gene Sharp


A Belarusian translation of Gene Sharp's crucial work, From Dictatorship to Democracy, has been released.

Originally published in 1993 in Thailand for distribution among Burmese dissidents, From Dictatorship to Democracy has since spread to several parts of the world. It is a serious introduction to the use of nonviolent action to topple dictatorships. Belarusian is one of seventeen different languages that this work appears in. For more information click here. 67 pp. 2005

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От ДИКТАТУРЫ к ДЕМОКРАТИИ
From Dictatorship to Democracy (Russian)
by Gene Sharp


A Russian translation of Gene Sharp's crucial work, From Dictatorship to Democracy, has been released.

Originally published in 1993 in Thailand for distribution among Burmese dissidents, From Dictatorship to Democracy has since spread to several parts of the world. It is a serious introduction to the use of nonviolent action to topple dictatorships. Russian is one of seventeen different languages that this work appears in. For more information click here. 70 pp. 2005

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There Are Realistic Alternatives
by Gene Sharp


There Are Realistic Alternatives is a short, serious introduction to nonviolent struggle, its applications, and strategic thinking. Based on pragmatic arguments, this piece presents nonviolent struggle as a realistic alternative to war and other violence in acute conflicts. It also contains a glossary of important terms and recommendations for further reading. For more information click here. 54 pp. 2003

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From Dictatorship to Democracy
by Gene Sharp


From Dictatorship to Democracy is a serious introduction to the use of nonviolent action to topple dictatorships. Originally published in 1993 in Thailand for distribution among Burmese dissidents, this booklet has since been translated into seventeen different languages and spread worldwide. This is the third US edition. For more information click here. 88 pp. 2003

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The Anti-Coup
by Gene Sharp and Bruce Jenkins


As coups are one of the primary ways through which dictatorships are installed, this piece details measures that civilians, civil society, and governments can take to prevent and block coups d'état and executive usurpations. It also contains specific legislative steps and other measures that governments and non-governmental institutions can follow to prepare for anti-coup resistance. For more information click here. 64 pp. 2003

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The Politics of Nonviolent Action
by Gene Sharp


A major exploration of nonviolent struggle in three volumes: Power and Struggle, The Methods of Nonviolent Action, The Dynamics of Nonviolent Action. For more information click here.

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A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict
by Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall


A gripping narrative of history-changing conflicts, this book tells how popular movements have used nonviolent weapons to overthrow dictators, obstruct military invaders, and secure human rights in country after country over the past century. For more information, see the companion film A Force More Powerful. For more information about the book click here.

"These are powerful stories.... Nonviolent valor can end oppression, and the world of the 21st century will be safer, freer, and more humane if it heeds the lessons of this book."—Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States

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Civilian-Based Defense: A Post-Military Weapons System
by Gene Sharp


A major exposition of the concept of organized nonviolent civilian resistance against attempted coups d'état and foreign occupations. For more information click here.

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Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: The Dynamics of People Power in the Twentieth Century
by Peter Ackerman and Christopher Kruegler


This work sets a new standard for studies of strategy in nonviolent struggle, analyzing six key historical cases through the lens of twelve strategic principles.
"Peter Ackerman and Christopher Kruegler have brought up-to-date the best thinking on strategic nonviolence...."—Thomas Schelling
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Making Europe Unconquerable: The Potential of Civilian-based Deterrence and Defense
by Gene Sharp


This book sketches the main characteristics of the policy of civilian-based defense, and outlines its relevance for Western European countries in the 1980s. For more information click here.

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Gandhi as a Political Strategist
by Gene Sharp


"Previous works have tended to concentrate on Gandhi's personal morality in a kind of 'great man' interpretation of India's successful struggle for independence.... But Professor Sharp makes clear once and for all that the driving force in the movement for Indian independence was Gandhi's creative synthesis of India's cultural and historical traditions with a unique interpretation of the principle of militant, nonviolent resistance to all forms of institutional evil." —Coretta Scott King
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Social Power and Political Freedom
by Gene Sharp


Sharp's "works...present nonviolent political action...in such a way that even the most hardened realist can see how objectives sought by nations through war can also be sought by nonviolent means. The case...rests on history, and on a profound understanding of what constitutes political power." —Former U.S. Senator Mark O. Hatfield
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Nonviolent Struggle and the Revolution in East Germany
(Einstein Institution Monographer Series #6)
by Roland Bleiker


Roland Bleiker examines the role that "exit" and "voice" forms of protest played in the collapse of the communist regime in East Germany. He includes a chronology of the East German Revolution of 1989-90 and extensive notes. For more information click here. 53 pp. 1993

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Nonviolent Action in the Liberation of Latvia
Einstein Institution Monograph Series #5
by Olgerts Eglitis

This monograph recounts how the people of Latvia used nonviolent action (1987-1991) to throw off Soviet domination and regain independence. It includes 24 pages of official documents outlining Latvian plans for popular resistance against Soviet attack in 1991. For more information click here. 72 pp. 1993

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Civil Resistance in the East European and Soviet Revolutions
Einstein Institution Monograph Series #4
by Adam Roberts

Adam Roberts examines the dramatic role played by "people power" in the undermining of communist regimes in East Central Europe, the achievement of independence by the Baltic states, and the defeat of the August 1991 coup attempt in the Soviet Union. For more information click here. 43 pp. 1991, 1999

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Insurrectionary Civic Strikes in Latin America: 1931–1961
(Einstein Institution Monograph Series #1)
by Patrica Parkman

"From 1931 to 1961, eleven Latin American presidents left office in the wake of civic strikes," writes Parkman. "In addition, at least four...faced unsuccessful attempts to force them out by the same means." Dr. Parkman compares and contrasts these fifteen cases and includes a chronological summary of each case as well as extensive notes. For more information click here. 55pp. 1990

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The Role of Power in Nonviolent Struggle
Einstein Institution Monograph Series #3
by Gene Sharp

"Nonviolent action . . . is capable of wielding great power even against ruthless rulers and military regimes," writes Sharp, "because it attacks the most vulnerable characteristic of all hierarchical institutions and governments: dependence on the governed." Abstracted from Sharp's classic three-volume work, The Politics of Nonviolent Action, this monograph summarizes the core concepts behind the technique of nonviolent struggle. For more information click here. 19 pp. 1990, 1994

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Self-Reliant Defense without Bankruptcy or War
by Gene Sharp


In this booklet, Sharp discusses the potential of civilian-based defense for the Baltics, East Central Europe, and members of the Commonwealth of Independent States. For more information click here. 72 pp. 1992

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National Security Through Civilian-based Defense
by Gene Sharp


This publication offers an introduction to civilian-based defense. It also identifies significant research areas and policy studies that are relevant to advancing the field. For more information click here. 93 pp. 1985

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Making the Abolition of War a Realistic Goal
by Gene Sharp


This popular essay, first published in 1980, provides a brief introduction to civilian-based defense, a policy in which civilians are prepared to use nonviolent resistance as a means of national defense. Previously published by the World Policy Institute. For more information click here. 14 pp. 1980, 1990

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Civilian-Based Defense in a New Era
(Einstein Institution Monograph Series #2)
by Johan Jørgen Holst

In the wake of the peaceful revolutions of Eastern Europe in 1989, Johan Holst outlines the key criteria and parameters of a future security order in Europe and explores the potential of nonviolent civilian-based defense as a complement to traditional military forms of defense. Mr. Holst, who died in 1994, was the foreign minister of Norway, and former director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs in Oslo. For more information click here. 22 pp. 1990

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Toward Research and Theory Building in the Study of Nonviolent Action
(Einstein Institution Monograph Series #7)
by Ronald McCarthy and Christopher Kruegler

The authors offer their thoughts about developing theory and conducting research in the emerging field of nonviolent action. For more information click here. 35 pp. 1993

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Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany
by Nathan Stoltzfus


"A faithful, painstaking reconstruction of an amazing event in the history of Nazi Germany, a case of successful protest against the Gestapo in the middle of the war in Berlin. This incident has been overlooked by historians and Professor Stolzfus deserves our gratitude...."—Professor Walter Laqueur
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Eyes Without Country: Searching for a Palestinian Strategy of Liberation
by Souad Dajani


Dajani's "discussion of the Intifada is remarkable for its balance and breadth. Her thorough investigation of nonviolent civil resistance as a Palestinian strategy defines a vital approach....This book should be read by anyone interested in the Middle East or in civil disobedience." —Jamal R. Nassar
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Nonviolent Insurrection in El Salvador
by Patricia Parkman


In the first week of May 1944, the people of San Salvador staged a civic strike against the dictator Maximiliano Hernández Martinez which spread throughout the population and even into the government. Unable to deal with this new, nonviolent insurrection, Martinez chose to "retire" from office. For more information click here.

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Constitutionalist Insurgency in Finland: Finnish "Passive Resistance" Against Russification as a Case of Nonmilitary Struggle in the European Tradition
by Steven Duncan Huxley


"In 1899 the Russian regime...initiated a policy of systematic Russification of its western borderland, the Duchy of Finland. The regime's efforts... [were] met with a distinct and sophisticated form of nonmilitary struggle called 'passive resistance.'"—from the back cover.
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But For Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle
by Glenn T. Eskew


Focusing on the sometimes problematic intersection of the local and national Civil Rights movements, Eskew argues that the larger victory won in the streets of Birmingham did little for many of its black citizens. "A well-dcoumented, objective analysis, this volume deserves a prominent place in any library of the civil rights movement."—Publishers Weekly
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Civil Resistance in Kosovo
by Howard Clark


Prior to the rise of the Kosovo Liberation Army and NATO intervention, Kosovo Albanians engaged in a 10-year nonviolent struggle for political and civil rights. In 1997 the Einstein Institution Fellows Program funded Howard Clark to investigate the development of this remarkable movement. Mr. Clark examines how a determined nonviolent struggle by Kosovo Albanians frustrated SerbiaÕs plans for Kosovo. He describes the growth and potential of the movement, its subsequent stagnation, and attempts to reinvigorate it. For .

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Resistance, Politics, and the American Struggle for Independence, 1765–1775
Edited by Walter H. Conser, Jr., Ronald M. McCarthy, David Toscano, Gene Sharp


As independence leader and US President John Adams wrote: "A history of military operations...is not a history of the American Revolution....The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people, and [was] substantially effected before hostilities commenced." This volume analyzes the extensive nature of American nonviolent resistance to colonial rule. For more information click here.

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Nonviolent Action: A Research Guide
by Ronald M. McCarthy and Gene Sharp


A 700-page annotated bibliography of English-language books concerning cases, history, methods, and theory of nonviolent action. The work includes Dr. McCarthy's insightful introduction on "The Possibilities of Research on Nonviolent Action." For .

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Protest, Power, and Change: An Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action from Act-Up to Women's Suffrage
edited by Roger Powers and William Vogele


A major encyclopedia of nonviolent action that provides a remarkably comprehensive treatment of the field in a single volume. For more information click here.

"A magisterial collection of essays that significantly enhances our understanding of the phenomenon and pervasiveness of non-violent action as well as its transformative powers...."—Yuen Foong Khong

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A Force More Powerful

A Force More Powerful is a two-part documentary series on one of the 20th century's most imporatnat and least-known stories—how nonviolent power overcame oppression and authoritarian rule. Drawing on six case studies from the twentieth century, this film is the story of millions who chose to battle the forces of brutality with nonviolent weapsons—and won. Also, see the companion book A Force More Powerful. For more information about the film click here.

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Bringing Down a Dictator

Bringing Down a Dictator is the story of how nonviolent action was used to bring down Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic in the year 2000. Led by the Otpor! (Serbian for "resistance") student movement, Serbs nonviolently resisted the Milosevic regime and caused it to topple in October 2000. For more information about the film click here.

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