1st Edition

Coloured Revolutions and Authoritarian Reactions

Edited By Evgeny Finkel, Yitzhak M. Brudny Copyright 2013
160 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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 Coloured 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)

Biography

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.