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Pt. I: Coalition dynamics in social movements -- Linking strategic choice with macro-organizational dynamics: strategy and social movement articulation / Dennis J. Downey and Deana A. Rohlinger -- Coalition dissolution, mobilization, and network dynamics in the U.S. antiwar movement / Michael T. Heaney and Fabio Rojas -- Social movement organizations and coaltions: comparisons from the women's movement in Buenos Aires, Argentina / Elizabeth Borland -- Mesomobilization and fragile coalitions: aboriginal politics and treaty-making in British Columbia / R. S. Ratner and Andrew Woolford -- The living wag movement and the economics of morality: frames, ideology and the discursive field / Shehzad Nadeem -- Pt. II: Strategic alliances and strategic decision-making in social movements -- Professional and political alliances, legitimating authority and the longevity of health movement organizations / Matthew E. Archibald and Kendralin J. Freeman -- Opposing movement strategies in U.S. abortion politics / David S. Meyer and Suzanne Staggenborg -- What we talk about when we talk about decline: competing narratives in the Amsterdam squatters' movement / Lynn Owens -- Pt. III: Political opportunities and political inequalities -- Starving for change: the hunger strike and nonviolent action, 1906-2004 / Stephen J. Scanlon, Laurie Cooper Stoll and Kimberly Lumm -- Restricting public life, creating deadly strife: how political discrimination impacts interethnic conflict / Clayton D. Peoples and Tina Hsu Schweizer.

Social movement strategies and coalition dynamics in movements are two of the hottest arenas for cutting-edge research. Many case studies offer useful analytical windows through which we can understand the strategic choices made by individual movement organizations. Equally if not more important questions remain about how the positions a movement organization occupies in the broader social movement field impacts strategic decision-making. Coalition politics and conflicts matter to social movements.Thus Section One of this volume of "Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change" presents a series of papers focused on the complex dynamics of coalitions and the interorganizational relations within social movements. Another section follows immediately that compliments in an integrated way the first, this one focused on strategic decision making in social movements, including with regard to strategic alliances. The Volume closes with a third section on political opportunities and political inequalities. This volume of the "Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change" does what the series has always done best: showcase sound empirical work and creative theory-building that addresses those questions currently at the forefront of the field.

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