Revolutionary Algorithms

Waves of Islamic Revolutionary Awakening and Uprising

The main hypothesis of this article is "three waves of Islamic revolutionary awakening and uprising". Here, these three waves have been studied in terms of their civil, religious and revolutionary aspects from local, regional and global perspective on the short, the mid and the long run as the strategic infrastructure and infrastructural strategy for new uprisings. Important elements will be re...

Political Islam and Popular Order in Post-Revolutionary Iran

Political Islam in Iran, which initially formed in the guise of Sultāni order, experiences its second form after 1979 Revolution, named popular order. While in both forms, the authority of religion has been accepted in political life, these types of order demonstrate two different experiences of political Islam in Iran. Thus, the comprehension of this new experience of political Islam after the...

Reflections by Robert Phillipson on English in Post-Revolutionary Iran. From Indigenization to Internationalization, M. Borjian (2013) Multilingual Matters, ISBN 978-1847699091

Media and Revolutionary Movements in the Arab Countries

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...