A unique theory of what happens when leaders fear a revolution
abroad will spread to their own country and how that affects
international relations. When do leaders fear that a revolution
elsewhere will spread to their own polities, and what are the
international effects of this fear? In Revolutionary Contagion,
Chad E. Nelson develops and tests a theory that explains how states
react to ideological-driven revolutions that have occurred in other
nations. To do this, he analyzes four key revolutionary movements
over two centuries-liberalism, communism, fascism, and Islamism. He
further explains that the key to understanding the response to
revolutions lies in focusing on the extent to which leaders fear
upheaval in their own countries. According to the theory, Nelson
argues, fear of contagion is driven more by the characteristics of
the host rather than the activities of the infecting agents. In
other words, leaders will fear revolutionary contagion when they
have significant revolutionary opposition movements that have an
ideological affinity with the revolutionary state. A powerful
theory of the profound effects revolutions have on international
relations, this book shows why one simply cannot make sense of
international politics-including patterns of alliances and wars-in
certain situations without considering the fear of contagion.
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