In this article, the authors focus attention on a poorly understood aspect of contentious
politics: the interaction between the transnational diffusion of new forms of protest behavior …

This book draws on a wide range of studies of collective conflict and the policing of crowds
and social movements to provide an understanding of the causes and management of …

Civil disobedience is a public, nonviolent, conscientious yet political act, contrary to law,
carried out to communicate opposition to law and policy of government. This book presents …

Police face a unique dilemma when policing protests that explicitly target them, such as the
anti-police brutality protests that have swept the United States recently. Because extant …

Recently, a wall was built in eastern Germany. Made of steel and cement blocks, topped with
razor barbed wire, and reinforced with video monitors and movement sensors, this wall was …

With the increase in large contentious demonstrations in the last decade has come a variety
of new efforts to explain the tactics used by police. Based on an analysis of how the New …

Social movement protest and repression are inextricably joined. In this chapter we make a
case for conceptualizing repression as the governance of domestic dissent. Repression or …

Recent analyses of protest policing in Western democracies argue that there has been a
marked shift away from oppressive or coercive approaches to an emphasis on consensus …

Front-line police operations are deeply entwined with less visible activities–or practices not
commonly identified as policing–that are carried out by a wide range of participants as …

Existing research has focused on the extent to which transnational interventions compel
recalcitrant governments to reduce levels of domestic repression, but few have considered …