Just as the Internet has changed the way many businesses conduct business, the Internet can also change the way academic researchers gather data. We describe revolutionary research strategies that employ six new data-collecting methodologies that can be employed using Internet technology. Data-collecting agents can gather very large amounts of data from the World Wide Web in a fraction of the t...

Istudy how a revolutionary vanguard might use violence to mobilize a mass public. The mechanism is informational—–the vanguard uses violence to manipulate population member’s beliefs about the level of antigovernment sentiment in society. The model has multiple equilibria, one equilibrium in which there may be revolution and another in which there is certain not to be. In the former, structural...

This research explores the 2018 revolution in Sudan to assess extent which adoption of non-violence led a more successful and set on path democratic governance. It investigates revolution’s main slogan, Silmiya, coming from Arabic word Salam meaning ‘peace’. Thus, nature function as well what motivates people resort will be considered. The acts point departure Fanon’s theory violence arguing th...

Abstract The Kurdish movement has often been touted as an egalitarian struggle, and, in many ways, rightly so. However, the movement's relation to its undisputed leader, Abdullah Öcalan, remained relatively unexamined. This article seeks rectify this oversight by investigating how Öcalan informs life. To do so, employs a frame of analysis that utilizes anthropological theory on kingship. Drawin...

Abstract The development of historical archaeology in the Iberian Peninsula has opened new and stimulating avenues research into its most recent times. One these been Carlist Wars, a series nineteenth-century conflicts related to overarching process emergence liberal governments Europe and, contemporarily, counter-revolutionary movements. This paper will describe excavations at sites southern p...

When revolutionaries or insurgents, broadly defined, indiscriminately attack civilians, they generally attack “complicitous civilians,” i.e., those categories of noncombatants which the revolutionaries see as benefiting from, supporting and/or having a substantial capacity to influence the states that the revolutionaries are attempting to displace or overthrow. Such “categorical” terrorism will...

Research on Marxism as a religious movement has primarily focused its theological implications. Building this work, article instead examines the practical aspects of revolutionary experience during Latin American Cold War, and compares it to two other non-Christian traditions, Judaism Umbanda. Drawing secret police records, memoirs oral history interviews, explores influence Judaism, Umbanda an...

One important problem concerning incommensurability is to explain how theories that are incommensurable can nevertheless compete. In this paper I shall briefly review Kuhn’s account of the difference between revolutionary and non-revolutionary conceptual developments. I shall argue that his taxonomic approach and the no-overlap principle it entails does not suffice to distinguish between revolu...