It is estimated that the number of Iranians in the United States has reached 1.5 to 2 million since mass departures following the 1979 revolution, making it the largest population of Iranians in one place outside of Iran itself, with the majority having settled in California. Th…
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This thesis examines the role of civil society in Egypt and argues that it was central to the success of the 2011 revolution that ended in the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. I will discuss the development of civil society under Mubarak and demonstrate its strength. In unders…
Unarmed insurrectionary (UI) campaigns demanding irregular regime change seem destined to failure, but such social movements surprisingly succeed more often than not. Explanations for campaign outcome tend to focus on movement skill or variation in domestic-level structural fact…
Several recent studies indicate that revolutions of non-violent civil resistance lead to more democratic and peaceful political transitions than either violent revolutions or elite-led political transitions. However, this general trend has not been disaggregated to explain the m…
The purpose of this thesis is to analyse the relationship between religion and revolution within the context of Egyptian Islamic culture. The discussion will begin with an investigation into the evolution of revolution as a concept, from its original scientific meaning within th…
Although scholars have devoted substantial attention to Armenian revolutionary movements, the treatment of the subject of relations between various Armenian organizations and the Young Turks and their leaders, both individually or through various institutions, have received tang…
This thesis explores some of the ways in which Egyptian men and women changed certain aspects of their reality through collective actions in public spaces during and after the 2011 Revolution. This thesis argues that the power of collective action which Egyptian men and women su…
In this thesis I aim to examine how the strategic use of nonviolent activism contributed to political transformation in Egypt during the overthrow of the Mubarak regime. I discuss how historically accumulated "models, memories, and social understandings" affected the operation o…
This study addresses the impact of the 1979 Islamic revolution of Iran on the Arab World, and it examines the vacillating attitudes of Ayatollah Khomeini and other prominent leaders of the revolution on the exportation of its ideology. The study also discusses the ramifications …
During the revolution and civil war, the Russian north had a particular view of regional identity. The native population itself, a divide between the locals and newcomers from the center, climate, geography, and finally the use of space (property rights) promoted the emergence o…
The core aim of this interdisciplinary research is to provide a critical analysis of the influence of Darwinism and Social Darwinism on a sample of modern Chinese writings. To achieve these aims, the researcher uses a range of both Chinese and English sources to explore their cl…
This thesis focuses upon a significant body of contemporary French political thought which takes as its starting point a contention that both the monist and doctrinaire political precepts dating from the Revolution and the consequent Hegelian, Marxist and structuralist thinking …
That revolutions come in waves is a commonly recognized feature of history, yet has been under theorized in the sociology of revolution. This dissertation argues that the solution to the puzzle of revolutionary waves lies in two aspects of revolution relatively neglected by prev…
This study examines the construction of a new political order in post-revolutionary Iran through the prism of its revolutionary armed forces. It specifically explores the place of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in this process, and focuses on its role in establish…
This dissertation, “The Orient in Europe: Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature,” responds to Edward Said's concept of a monolithic Christian Orientalism that justified European economic and political control of the Middle East. The project considers the role of E…
An original work which challenges Resurgent Islam as the underlying cause of the revolution. Using the form of historical-narrative covering 100 years of international politics, economics, social issues and religion, the work synthesizes the four areas in search of the root caus…
Revolution or Evolution? A Comparative Poetics of Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema is a study of Iranian cinema as a major cultural form of expression after the Islamic revolution in 1978. It argues that although other forms of cultural expression such as poetry and fiction wer…
This dissertation uses legal traditions (h[dotbelow]adith ) dating from the early 2nd /8th century to assess the historical reliability of sectarian narratives purporting to be early but preserved in non-contemporary historical and heresiographical works. These legal texts are p…
In 2011 the wave of revolutionary upheavals in the Arab world and the `Occupy' protests in the industrialized West together resurrected important questions about the nature and morality of revolution that had faded from view following the benign, non-violent "liberal revolutions…