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Rethinking the 'Coloured Revolutions'

326 Pages

by Routledge

326 Pages

by Routledge

328 Pages

by Routledge

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The communist world was supposed to have had its ‘revolution’ in 1989. But the demise of the Soviet Union came two years later, at the end of 1991; and then, perplexingly, a series of irregular executive changes began to take place the following decade in countries that were already postcommunist. The focus in this collection is the changes that took place in Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine and... Read more

Preface Stephen White and David Lane 1. ‘Coloured Revolution’ as a Political Phenomenon David Lane 2. From Reform and Transition to ‘Coloured Revolutions’ Vicken Cheterian 3. Putting the Colour into Revolutions? The OSCE and Civil Society in the Post-Soviet Region David J. Galbreath 4. Contested Sovereignty: The International Politics of Regime Change in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Christopher Lamont 5. Roses and Tulips: Dynamics of Regime Change in Georgia and Kyrgyzstan Donnacha O Beachain 6. Rethinking the ‘Orange Revolution’ Stephen White and Ian McAllister 7. Ukraine 2004: Informal Networks, Transformation of Social Capital and Coloured Revolutions Abel Polese 8. Class Voting and the Orange Revolution: A Cultural Political Economy Perspective on Ukraine’s Electoral Geography Vlad Mykhnenko 9. Rethinking the International Diffusion of Coloured Revolutions: The Power of Representation in Kyrgyzstan John Heathershaw 10. Was There a Quiet Revolution? Belarus After the 2006 Presidential Election Elena Korosteleva 11. The Legacy of the ‘Coloured Revolutions’: The Case of Kazakhstan Wojciech Ostrowski 12. Coloured Revolutions: The View from Moscow and Beijing Jeanne L. Wilson 13. Is There a Pattern? Stephen White