The 'Coloured' Revolutions: Causes, Processes and Consequences

Wednesday 30 April 2008

Beves Room, King's College, Cambridge

A contemporary political phenomenon has been the occurrence in post-Soviet space of democratic 'revolutions', inspired by Western democratic models and supported, to varying degrees, by Western funded non-governmental organizations. Unlike traditional revolutions, these have the distinctive character of being supported by, if not led and financed from, external sources. The aim of this workshop was to discuss the phenomenon of 'coloured' revolutions: their origin, processes and to evaluate their success and failure from a political and sociological point of view.

Working Papers

Vicken Cheterian, Geneva: ‘Coloured Revolutions’: Democratization? State-Building? Permanent Revolution?'

Inna Melnykovska, Kiel: 'Colour Revolution or Soft Authoritarianism?'

Donnacha Ó Beacháin, Dresden: 'Comparative Features of ‘coloured revolutions’ in Georgia and Kyrgyzstan'

Jeanne L. Wilson, Massachusetts: 'Colour Revolutions: The View From Moscow and Beijing'

Abel Polese, Hannah Arendt Institute: 'Russia, the US, ‘the others’ and the ‘101 things to do to win a (colour) revolution’

Ivaylo Gatev, Aston: 'The EU and the Coloured Revolutions'

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