Prominent scholars have highlighted important similarities between the Arab Spring of 2011
and the “revolutions” of 1848: Both waves of contention swept with dramatic speed across …

Upon the graduation of new cadets in the summer of 2015, the director of the Egyptian war
college proudly asserted that these young officers were the country's “future leaders... the …

A few years into the most recent wave of popular uprisings—the Arab Spring—studying
regime trajectories in countries such as Syria, Egypt, and Yemen still seems like shooting at …

This study investigates the three main waves of political regime contention in Europe and
Latin America. Surprisingly, protest against authoritarian rule spread across countries more …

From Gandhi's movement to win Indian independence to the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011,
an expanding number of citizens have used nonviolent action to win political goals. While …

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

Armed forces strong enough to protect the state also pose a threat to the state. We develop a
model that distills this “Guardianship Dilemma” to its barest essentials, and show that the …

This chapter analyzes the role of the military's position in the outcomes of civilian uprisings
and revolutions. Civilian protest campaigns (or revolutions) that appear to drive autocrats …

The Algerian military's response to the 2019–2020 Hirak protests was relatively peaceful. In
contrast to its violent repression of protests in 1988, and subsequent coup and civil war in …

This article presents a systematic analysis of military coups following popular mass uprisings
in nondemocratic regimes, conceptualized as endgame coups. Drawing on our original …