America is facing an unprecedented authoritarian threat. What can we learn from the experiences of other movements around the world that  have faced this threat?​​​

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Prof. Erica Chenoweth researches nonviolent anti-authoritarian movements around the world to discover how and why they succeed or fail. This research is the basis for the claim that no government has withstood a challenge of 3.5% of their population mobilizing against it during a peak event (the “3.5% rule”).

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In these videos, Chenoweth discusses:

• The role of protests in countering authoritarianism

• The stages of a resistance movement

• The relationship of civil resistance to electoral politics

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Prof. Chenoweth is a political scientist and author of Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know. Her research has been featured in The New Yorker, The New YorkTimes, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, The Economist, and The Boston Globe, among others.

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