Seventy-one of the 168 member nations of the UN were rocked by
insurgency during the past decade. Among the most overwhelming of
the conflicts were full-scale civil and separatist wars in
Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Indonesia,
Mozambique, Peru, the Philippines, Somalia, and the Sudan. In light
of the fact that major civil wars also occurred in 21 independent
countries during the 1970s, 13 countries during the 1960s, and 14
countries during the 1950s, it seems clear that the current
prevalence of revolutions world-wide reflects a growing trend in
world affairs. This volume grew out of the twelfth annual Political
Economy of the World-System Conference, War and Revolution, held at
Emory University. It consists of entirely original research from a
variety of perspectives and disciplines and provides world-
systematic, comparative historical and case study analyses of
revolutions and the prolonged development of structural dynamics
and political processes that give rise to these upheavals. The
contributors emphasize the importance of viewing revolution from a
global perspective with careful attention to the political and
cultural dimensions as well as the economic factors involved.
Following an introduction by editor Terry Boswell, the work is
divided into four sections: world revolutions, comparative studies
of revolution, case studies of social revolution in Nicaragua and
Iran, and case studies of revolutionary situations in Poland,
Chile, and South Africa. An afterword by former U.S. President
Jimmy Carter completes the volume. This work provides an important
interdisciplinary perspective on intranational strife in the modern
world, and will be useful in college and university courses in
political science, world affairs, history, and sociology.
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