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Is protest contagious?
Thousands rally against Putin in Moscow As the year comes to an end, unexpected and potentially powerful protest movements are appearing in unexpected places, including China, Russia, and Syria,...
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Arab Fall
To paraphrase the old Boston politician, revolution ain’t beanbag. The wave of revolutionary action across the Middle East and North Africa about a year and a half ago captured the imagination of...
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Inspiration across borders: Brazil and Turkey
Will a clever name, like Arab Spring or Occupy, link the protests erupting in disparate parts of the globe? Will 2013 become a sign uniting all of them in memory, just like 1848, 1968, and 1989? The...
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Social movements, governance, democracy, and Egypt
What are we to make of the military coup that the military refuses to call a coup in Egypt? I’m generally ready to cheer the departure of an unpopular putative theocrat, but quite suspicious of the...
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Last year, 2019, the editors of The Big Q, a very cool blog sponsored by the University of Auckland, asked me to write about the seeming explosion of protest movements globally. This is what I thought,...
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Occupy at 10 (1/x)
It’s 10 years ago September 17 that Occupy Wall Street commenced, and the decennial is a good time to see how (or whether) it mattered. Kai Ryssdal interviewed me at Marketplace about just this issue,...
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Dilemmas and Dynamics of Escalation (2)
Wynn Bruce set himself on fire in front of the Supreme Court toward the end of Earth Day. He was evacuated by helicopter and died in a hospital the next day. Concerned with government inaction on...
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