Resisting Dictatorship

Vince Boudreau compares strategies of repression and protest in post-war Burma Indonesia and the Philippines because these alternative strategies shaped the social bases and opposition cultures available to dissidents and in turn influenced their effectiveness. He includes first-hand research as well as the the social movements'' literature to consider the interactions between the regimes in the wake of repression and the subsequent emergence of democracy. Boudreau offers a genuinely comparative study of dictatorship and resistance in South East Asia.