Coloured Revolutions and Authoritarian Reactions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Coloured Revolutions and Authoritarian Reactions write by Evgeny Finkel. This book was released on 2014-07-17. Coloured Revolutions and Authoritarian Reactions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between 2000 and 2005, colour revolutions swept away authoritarian and semi-authoritarian regimes in Serbia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine. Yet, after these initial successes, attempts to replicate the strategies failed to produce regime change elsewhere in the region. The book argues that students of democratization and democracy promotion should study not only the successful colour revolutions, but also the colour revolution prevention strategies adopted by authoritarian elites. Based on a series of qualitative, country-focused studies the book explores the whole spectrum of anti-democratization policies, adopted by autocratic rulers and demonstrates that authoritarian regimes studied democracy promotion techniques, used in various colour revolutions, and focused their prevention strategies on combatting these techniques. The book proposes a new typology of authoritarian reactions to the challenge of democratization and argues that the specific mix of policies and rhetoric, adopted by each authoritarian regime, depended on the perceived intensity of threat to regime survival and the regime’s perceived strength vis-à-vis the democratic opposition. This book was published as a special issue of Democratization.
Special Issue
Special Issue - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Special Issue write by Evgeny Finkel. This book was released on 2012. Special Issue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Reassessing Coloured Revolutions and Authoritarian Reactions
Reassessing Coloured Revolutions and Authoritarian Reactions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reassessing Coloured Revolutions and Authoritarian Reactions write by . This book was released on 2012. Reassessing Coloured Revolutions and Authoritarian Reactions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Color Revolutions
The Color Revolutions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Color Revolutions write by Lincoln A. Mitchell. This book was released on 2012-06-22. The Color Revolutions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From late 2003 through mid-2005, a series of peaceful street protests toppled corrupt and undemocratic regimes in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan and ushered in the election of new presidents in all three nations. These movements—collectively known as the Color Revolutions—were greeted in the West as democratic breakthroughs that might thoroughly reshape the political terrain of the former Soviet Union. But as Lincoln A. Mitchell explains in The Color Revolutions, it has since become clear that these protests were as much reflections of continuity as they were moments of radical change. Not only did these movements do little to spur democratic change in other post-Soviet states, but their impact on Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan themselves was quite different from what was initially expected. In fact, Mitchell suggests, the Color Revolutions are best understood as phases in each nation's long post-Communist transition: significant events, to be sure, but far short of true revolutions. The Color Revolutions explores the causes and consequences of all three Color Revolutions—the Rose Revolution in Georgia, the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, and the Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan—identifying both common themes and national variations. Mitchell's analysis also addresses the role of American democracy promotion programs, the responses of nondemocratic regimes to the Color Revolutions, the impact of these events on U.S.-Russian relations, and the failed "revolutions" in Azerbaijan and Belarus in 2005 and 2006. At a time when the Arab Spring has raised hopes for democratic development in the Middle East, Mitchell's account of the Color Revolutions serves as a valuable reminder of the dangers of confusing dramatic moments with lasting democratic breakthroughs.
Coloured Revolutions and Authoritarian Reactions
Coloured Revolutions and Authoritarian Reactions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Coloured Revolutions and Authoritarian Reactions write by Evgeny Finkel. This book was released on 2014-07-17. Coloured Revolutions and Authoritarian Reactions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between 2000 and 2005, colour revolutions swept away authoritarian and semi-authoritarian regimes in Serbia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine. Yet, after these initial successes, attempts to replicate the strategies failed to produce regime change elsewhere in the region. The book argues that students of democratization and democracy promotion should study not only the successful colour revolutions, but also the colour revolution prevention strategies adopted by authoritarian elites. Based on a series of qualitative, country-focused studies the book explores the whole spectrum of anti-democratization policies, adopted by autocratic rulers and demonstrates that authoritarian regimes studied democracy promotion techniques, used in various colour revolutions, and focused their prevention strategies on combatting these techniques. The book proposes a new typology of authoritarian reactions to the challenge of democratization and argues that the specific mix of policies and rhetoric, adopted by each authoritarian regime, depended on the perceived intensity of threat to regime survival and the regime’s perceived strength vis-à-vis the democratic opposition. This book was published as a special issue of Democratization.
