Associate Professor in International Relations at the London School of Economics, previously taught at Goldsmiths College and Demos. Currently completing a book entitled Anatomies of Revolution. @lseideas
Associate Professor in International Relations at the London School of Economics, previously taught at Goldsmiths College and Demos. Currently completing a book entitled Anatomies of Revolution. @lseideas
A stable definition would be something like ‘a rapid transformation of a society’s political, economic and symbolic institutions’, but you’re only going to know that’s happened... Читать далее
Associate Professor in International Relations at the London School of Economics, previously taught at Goldsmiths College and Demos. Currently completing a book entitled Anatomies of Revolution. @lseideas
Are the internet and social media making political revolutions more possible?
Revolutions have always found a way to mobilise and spread their message. You go back to the late eighteenth century and you have this great wave of revolutions in the Atlantic world that... Читать далее
Associate Professor in International Relations at the London School of Economics, previously taught at Goldsmiths College and Demos. Currently completing a book entitled Anatomies of Revolution. @lseideas
As to where a revolution will happen next, I have no idea. But, I think you can look for signs. You might look for regimes that are overly reliant on a foreign backer, because if that... Читать далее
Associate Professor in International Relations at the London School of Economics, previously taught at Goldsmiths College and Demos. Currently completing a book entitled Anatomies of Revolution. @lseideas
Do societies ever change radically without war or revolution?
Revolutions are usually defined in hindsight, but I think the thing we have to be careful about is that not everything we look at becomes a revolution. For example, I don’t think the... Читать далее