Coloured Revolutions and Authoritarian Reactions

ISBN-13: 9780415639576 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 152 str.

Evgeny Finkel; Yitzhak M. Brudny

Opis

This title focuses on the reaction of the Eurasia authoritarian regimes to the colour revolutions in the region and shows how autocratic rulers studied various democracy promotion techniques to combat regime change in their state.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.