At the end of January 2011, Mubarak faced such a combination of long-, medium-and short-
term factors that he had no way to counter:(1) The explosive growth of the population of …

Civil society is frequently conceived as a field of multiple organizations, committed to highly
diverse causes and interests. When studied empirically, however, its properties are often …

Recent studies of civil resistance indicate that security force defections can heavily influence
the outcome of nonviolent uprisings against authoritarian regimes. Yet we know little about …

Ближний Восток–это регион, который много десятилетий находится в центре
внимания, поскольку он постоянно преподносит такие «сюрпризы» и повороты …

Over the last forty years the world has witnessed the emergence and proliferation of a new
political phenomenon-unarmed revolution. On virtually every continent, citizens have ousted …

This book introduces four waves of upsurge in digital activism and cyberconflict. The rise of
digital activism started in 1994, was transformed by the events of 9/11, culminated in 2011 …

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 …

Abstract The Arab Spring acted as a trigger for a global wave of socio-political
destabilization that significantly exceeded the scale of the Arab Spring itself and affected …

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

This research note introduces new global data on military coups. Conventional aggregate
data so far have conflated two distinct types of coups. Military interventions by leading …