In this fully revised and updated in-depth analysis of the war in Ukraine, Paul D'Anieri
explores the dynamics within Ukraine, between Ukraine and Russia, and between Russia …

What explains electoral stability and change in competitive authoritarian regimes? This
article addresses the question by comparing eleven elections—six of which led to continuity …

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 …

The celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall provoked a
debate on the outcomes of the transition process in the post-communist countries, including …

Despite implementing coup-proofing measures designed to maintain military loyalty, Arab
regimes proved vulnerable to military defection during the Arab Spring. Some Arab militaries …

During the last two decades, scholars from a variety of disciplines have argued that civil
society is structurally deficient in postcommunist countries. Yet why have the seemingly …

The sight of thousands of people demonstrating for clean elections and an end to corrupt
postcommunist regimes led many observers to declare that the so-called color revolutions …

Whether it is cosmology or social change, our understanding of the universe is always going
through change. As Thomas Kuhn (1970) pointed out, such change seems to alternate …

The study of social media is becoming a subject of increasing importance for political
science. Scholars are beginning to take seriously the claims that social media might lead to …

The 'Orange Revolution'in Ukraine is widely considered to be an instance of the 'coloured
revolutions' of 1989 engendered by democratic values and nascent civil societies in the …