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 …

Leonid Grinin discusses several important processes connected with revolutions in
modernizing societies. He shows that as a result of the escape from the Malthusian trap a …

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) …

The performed cross-national tests with negative binomial regression models support the
presence of a curvilinear relationship between the quantitative expansion of education …

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 …