This article points out a struggle of today's societies with the traditional concepts of civil disobedience and … stresses the need for reevaluation of the concept of civil disobedience for policy making and public discourse. Starting with a … minimal definition of civil disobedience, the article introduces Hannah Arendt's approach for a legitimisation of civil …

From the streets of Hong Kong to Ferguson, Missouri, civil disobedience has again become newsworthy. What explains the … prevalence and extremity of acts of civil disobedience?This paper presents a model in which protest planners choose the nature of … revelation of uncertainty to increase the probability of regime change. The requirements needed for rational civil disobedience …