We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In "Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present" (W.W. Norton), journalist and CNN anchor Fareed ...

The Age of Revolutions was inaugurated by the English Puritans in 1640 when they overthrew King Charles I, cutting off his head and stopping the divine right of the king to rule. Autocracy was ...

The Bastille looms large in the revolutionary imagination. When Paris crowds seized the French king’s fortress in July 1789, they unwittingly created a model for every subsequent upheaval. From the ...

TEHRAN -- Victoria's Secret has arrived in Tehran. So have the Gap, Diesel, Benetton and Black & Decker. A quarter-century after a mass movement inspired by Islam ended 2,500 years of monarchy, Iran's ...

The Kurdish rebels of Rojava, the northeastern region of Syria, promised a type of revolution that had never been done before. Rather than trying to break the country into ethnic states, they would ...

This course looks at the concept of political revolution that results in the overthrow of an existing government and/or colonial regime and replacement with something entirely new. The course begins ...

The eruption of the Arab revolutions, with the disappointment and disillusionment that ensued, has pushed me as well as many other observeres and participants into a soul-searching process, to which ...