Social Change or Global Strategy? Political Anatomy of Color Revolutions
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Revolutions, Color Revolutions, Social and Political Change, International Relations, Regional and Global Actors.Abstract
The article examines the phenomenon of color revolutions within the framework of revolutionary theory and aims to address the manipulations of regional and global actors on color revolutions in particular. Color revolutions are generally defined as mass movements that aim to realize demands for social and political change through democratic reforms. However, it is known that these movements are often supported and intervened by regional or global powers. In this context, the article analyzes the process of the emergence of color revolutions based on revolutionary theory and why these movements occur more frequently in regions such as the former Soviet countries, Eastern Europe and Africa. The article examines the methods and purposes of regional and global actors’ intervention in these revolutions, and examines how intervention tools evaluated in a wide range from diplomacy to media, from financial support to military interventions affect the direction and outcomes of color revolutions. In this context, attention is drawn to the long-term effects of regional and global actors, such as political instability in the geographies where color revolutions occur, changes in regional balances of power and increasing tensions in international relations. The article presents an analysis aimed at understanding the complex effects of color revolutions on regional and global politics using qualitative research methods, and evaluates how demands for social change intersect with global power strategies and how they shape the political anatomy of color revolutions within a historical, conceptual and theoretical framework.
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