Coloured Revolutions and Authoritarian Reactions

Author:   Evgeny Finkel (George Washington University, USA) ,  Yitzhak M. Brudny (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138945210


Pages:   152
Publication Date:   14 August 2015
Format:   Paperback
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Between 2000 and 2005, colour revolutions swept away authoritarian and semi-authoritarian regimes in Serbia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine. Yet, after these initial successes, attempts to replicate the strategies failed to produce regime change elsewhere in the region. The book argues that students of democratization and democracy promotion should study not only the successful colour revolutions, but also the colour revolution prevention strategies adopted by authoritarian elites. Based on a series of qualitative, country-focused studies the book explores the whole spectrum of anti-democratization policies, adopted by autocratic rulers and demonstrates that authoritarian regimes studied democracy promotion techniques, used in various colour revolutions, and focused their prevention strategies on combatting these techniques. The book proposes a new typology of authoritarian reactions to the challenge of democratization and argues that the specific mix of policies and rhetoric, adopted by each authoritarian regime, depended on the perceived intensity of threat to regime survival and the regime’s perceived strength vis-à-vis the democratic opposition. This book was published as a special issue of Democratization.

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Author:   Evgeny Finkel (George Washington University, USA) ,  Yitzhak M. Brudny (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.249kg
ISBN:  

9781138945210


ISBN 10:   1138945218
Pages:   152
Publication Date:   14 August 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Preface Evgeny Finkel and Yitzhak Brudny 1. No more colour! Authoritarian regimes and colour revolutions in Eurasia Evgeny Finkel and Yitzhak Brudny 2. Russia and the colour revolutions Evgeny Finkel and Yitzhak Brudny 3. Questioning democracy promotion: Belarus' response to the ‘colour revolutions’ Elena Korosteleva 4. Oil in the family: managing presidential succession in Azerbaijan Scott Radnitz 5. Coloured by revolution: the political economy of autocratic stability in Uzbekistan Jennifer Murtazashvili 6. Tajikistan: authoritarian reaction in a postwar state Lawrence Markowitz 7. Democracy promotion, authoritarian resiliency, and political unrest in Iran Güneş Murat Tezcür

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Evgeny Finkel is Assistant Professor of Political Science, George Washington University, USA. His articles have been published in Comparative Politics, Democratization, East European Politics and Societies, Global Society, Genocide Studies and Prevention, and several other journals. Yitzhak M. Brudny is the Jay and Leonie Darwin Chair in Russian Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He is the author of Reinventing Russia: Russian Nationalism and the Soviet State, 1953–1991 (Harvard University Press, 1998), and the principal editor of Restructuring Post-Communist Russia (Cambridge University Press, 2004). His articles on Russia and the former Soviet Union have appeared in numerous journals and edited volumes.

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