The Revolutionary Heritages in French Polilics

French Revolutionary Studies A FAILURE OF ENLIGHTENED POLITICS IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: THE SOCIETE

In the spring and early summer of 1790, a new and formidable political association appeared in Paris dedicated to the consolidation of the Revolutionary gains of the previous year and to the development, propagation and implementation of Enlightened social and political ideals. The Societe de 1789 was founded by the marquis de Condorcet and abbe Sieyes in April 1790, and quickly attracted a lar...

The Revolutionary Fever in the Syrian Crisis

در سال 2011 و همزمان با آغاز تحولات در کشورهای عربی به عنوان بخشی از جهان اسلام، در کشور سوریه نیز اعتراضاتی بروز کرد که منجر به یک بحران گسترده در این کشور شد که تاکنون نیز حل ناشده باقی مانده است. اگرچه نمی توان از نقش دولتهای منطقه ای و جهانی در این بحران غفلت کرد، اما به نظر می رسد نقش عوامل داخلی در این بحران غیر قابل انکار باشد. این مقاله در تلاش است تا به بررسی عوامل داخلی اثرگذار در این...

Extremism in revolutionary movements

A revolutionary entrepreneur strategically chooses the revolutionary agenda to maximize the likelihood of revolution. Citizens have different preferences and can contribute varying degrees of support. This presents the revolutionary entrepreneur with a tradeoff between extensive and intensive margins of support. We show: (1) Extremists exert a disproportionate influence over the revolutionary a...

Media and Revolutionary Movements in the Arab Countries

Revolutionary Science

On rare occasions in the history of science, remarkable discoveries transform human society and forever alter mankind's view of the world. Examples of such discoveries include the heliocentric theory, Newtonian physics, the germ theory of disease, quantum theory, plate tectonics and the discovery that DNA carries genetic information. The science philosopher Thomas Kuhn famously described scienc...