Abstract
Abstract
This concluding chapter summarizes the book’s findings and their implications for theory and practice in world politics. It returns to the generalizing ethos of the book by zooming out again from the Arab uprisings to show that the emotional and cognitive mechanisms are applicable across other cases of diffusion of revolt. It briefly refers to events in 1848 and discusses the failures of the Iranian revolution of 1979 and the Green Revolution of 2009 to diffuse as further evidence of the generalizability of the theory and its mechanisms. It concludes by briefly evaluating efforts by major powers to either prevent or aid the diffusion of revolt and argues that these interventions would likely be more effective if they were based on the theory that is proposed and tested in this book.
Publisher
Oxford University PressNew York, NY
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