Grinin and Korotayev's main approach in this chapter is formulated in its title “Africa—the
Continent of the Future. Challenges and Opportunities.” And it is really so. Africa is the most …

This introductory chapter provides a number of definitions of different kinds and forms of
revolutionary events as well as a preliminary description of all the revolutionary waves of the …

This chapter offers an analysis of conditions in the MENA countries on the eve of the Arab
Spring wave of revolutions from the World System perspective, as well as the causes …

Grinin and Korotayev in this chapter study the issue of democratization of countries within
the context of revolutions and globalization. They point to the unreasonably high economic …

This chapter presents forecasts for the emergence of large-scale political and demographic
collapses and for the economic growth of some countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) …

This study investigates the effect that formal education, as a factor of socio-economic
development, has on the intensity and forms of political protest. By way of increased …

In recent years, the question of what form a revolutionary uprising will take–armed or
unarmed–has been raised more often. This is because, as shown by numerous studies …

Is there a relationship between education and the type of revolutionary action–violent or
nonviolent? Past studies found a positive relationship between the education and …

This article offers a comparison of sociopolitical instability forecasting systems. It compares
systematically their efficiency by correlating their predictions for particular years with actual …

Based on the experience of previous studies, the authors use machine learning methods at
two levels for evaluating predictors of instability. First, they analyze the factors that lead to …