On Revolutions: Unruly Politics in the Contemporary World

List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Challenging the Way We Think About Revolutions
Chapter 1: The Social-Political Dichotomy
Chapter 2: The Structure-Agency Dichotomy
Chapter 3: The Violence-Nonviolence Dichotomy
Chapter 4: The Success-Failure Dichotomy
Chapter 5: The Domestic-International Dichotomy
Part II: Challenging the Way We Theorize, Research, and Advise on Revolutions
Chapter 6: Political Theory and the Dichotomies of Revolution: Hannah Arendt and Her Critics
Chapter 7: Methodological Approaches to Studying Revolution
Chapter 8: Ethics in Revolution(ary) Research
Conclusion: The Future of Revolution
Notes
References
Index

Colin J. Beck is Associate Professor of Sociology and affiliate of the International Relations Program at Pomona College. He is the author of Radicals, Revolutionaries and Terrorists (2015). His work on revolutionary waves have won article awards from the American Sociological Associations sections on Global and Transnational Sociology, and Peace, War, and Social Conflict. 

Erica Chenoweth is the Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights & International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Foreign Policy ranked Chenoweth among the Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2013 for "proving Gandhi right." Chenoweth also won the 2014 Karl Deutsch Award, given annually by the International Studies Association to the scholar under 40 who has made the most significant impact on the field of international politics or peace research. Chenoweth is the co-author of Why Civil Resistance Works, which won the American Political Science Association's Woodrow Wilson Prize, the most prestigious award in the field.

Mlada Bukovansky is Professor of Government at Smith College in Northampton Massachusetts. Her research is situated at the intersection of the disciplines of international relations, history, and political theory, and is broadly concerned with the evolving institutions of world politics. Her publications include Legitimacy and Power Politics: The American and French Revolutions in International Political Culture (2002), Special Responsibilities: Global Problems and American Power, with Ian Clark, Robyn Eckersley, Richard Price, Christian Reus-Smit, and Nicholas J. Wheeler (2012), and articles in International Organization, Review of International Studies, Review of International Political Economy, and International Politics.

 Sharon Erickson Nepstad is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico. She has been a Visiting Scholar at Princeton University's Center for the Study of Religion and at Notre Dame University's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Her books include Nonviolent Struggle: Theories, Strategies and Dynamics (2015) and Nonviolent Revolutions: Civil Resistance in the Late Twentieth Century (2011). Both of these books, published by Oxford University Press, won the Outstanding Book Award from the American Sociological Association section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict. Her other books include Catholic Social Activism: Progressive Movements in the United States (2019); Religion and War Resistance in the Plowshares Movement (2008); and Convictions of the Soul: Religion, Culture, and Biography in the Central America Solidarity Movement (Oxford, 2004). 

George Lawson is Professor of International Relations at the Australian National University, having previously taught at LSE and Goldsmiths College. He is the author of two books on revolutions: Anatomies of Revolution (2019) and Negotiated Revolutions: The Czech Republic, South Africa and Chile (2005). Lawson also applies his interest in history-theory to debates around global modernity, most notably in a book (co-authored with Barry Buzan), which charts the ways in which a range of important dynamics in contemporary international relations have their roots in the 19th century 'global transformation'. His work has won the Francesco Guicciardini Prize and the Joseph Fletcher Prize, both from the International Studies Association, and the Hedley Bull Prize from the European Consortium of Political Research.