Resistance in German-occupied Europe is generally understood as insurrectional violence. However, as soon as the war broke out, thousands of people engaged in civil disobedience--manifested through strikes, demonstrations, and the activities of medical organizations, courts of law, and churches. Jacques Semelin gathers evidence for the story of a movement that took place in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, and Denmark as well as Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Germany itself. A widespread campaign contested authority and paved the way for later armed resistance and the eventual defeat of the Nazis. --From publisher's description.
Setting / LocationFrance
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreUnarmed against Hitler Lead Character
La libération de la France, puis la victoire sur le nazisme, auxquelles ils avaient pris une part décisive, furent la victoire de tous ceux qui s’étaient engagés dans cette grande bataille patriotique et antifasciste. L’auteur vise à démontrer, par l’étude des processus de transition politique, des réalités de l’amalgame de FFI à l’armée régulière et des procès de résistants, que les forces travaillant à la restauration de l’ordre ancien l’emportèrent sur tous les autres possibles, portés par les dynamiques novatrices issues des maquis et des mouvements de Résistance.
"In Borders among Activists, Sarah S. Stroup challenges the notion that political activism has gone beyond borders and created a global or transnational civil society. Instead, at the most globally active, purportedly cosmopolitan groups in the world--international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs)--organizational practices are deeply tied to national environments, creating great diversity in the way these groups organize themselves, engage in advocacy, and deliver services. Stroup offers detailed profiles of these "varieties of activism" in the United States, Britain, and France. These three countries are the most popular bases for INGOs, but each provides a very different environment for charitable organizations due to differences in legal regulations, political opportunities, resources, and patterns of social networks. Stroup's comparisons of leading American, British, and French INGOs--Care, Oxfam, Médecins sans Frontières, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and FIDH--reveal strong national patterns in INGO practices, including advocacy, fund-raising, and professionalization. These differences are quite pronounced among INGOs in the humanitarian relief sector, and are observable, though less marked, among human rights INGOs. Stroup finds that national origin helps account for variation in the "transnational advocacy networks" that have received so much attention in international relations. For practitioners, national origin offers an alternative explanation for the frequently lamented failures of INGOs in the field: INGOs are not inherently dysfunctional, but instead remain disconnected because of their strong roots in very different national environments." -- Publisher's description
L'auteur établit sans fard ni complaisance le diagnostic de la crise ivoirienne au point de mettre en cause des personnalités des réseaux" France-Afrique" tant à l'intérieur qu'à l'extérieur de la Côte d'Ivoire. Elle oriente les regards et les espoirs vers une personnalité politique, la seule qui, selon elle, a l'étoffe et la carrure de porter et de défendre honorablement aujourd'hui la souveraineté de la Côte d'Ivoire: le Président Laurent Gbagbo. Elle démontre aussi en quoi la Côte d'Ivoire est un exemple paradigmatique des relations actuelles et à venir de la France avec les Etats africains.
An analysis of Vietnam era rhetoric from John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon to Daniel Berrigan, the SDS, the Weatherman, and Doonsbury and the Green Berets.
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