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April 28, 2011
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Understanding the Revolutions of 2011
Jack A. Goldstone

Revolutions rarely succeed, writes one of the world's leading experts on the subject -- except for revolutions against corrupt and personalist "sultanistic" regimes. This helps explain why Tunisia's Ben Ali and Egypt's Mubarak fell -- and also why some other governments in the region will prove more resilient.



This article appears in the Foreign Affairs/CFR eBook, The New Arab Revolt.

Click here to watch Jack Goldstone, the author of Foreign Affairs' recent "Understanding the Revolutions of 2011," speak about the conditions that led to unrest in the Arab world.