Geopolitical Themes in Contemporary Asian Revolutions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5130592 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert W Mccoll (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 301 |
| Publication date | 1975-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/213530 |
| OpenAlex | W2333346657 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
MW ITH the increasing number of national revolutions and the widespread use of political violence, a number of questions are raised that the social scientist must not only voice but also seek to answer. To date most studies of national revolutions and political violence have chronicled their evolution, social components, and results. Questions about causes have stressed such themes as frustrated rising expectations or the nature of individual leaders. Such approaches are notoriously ex post facto and have proved highly limited in predicting either the outbreak of a national revolution or its progress (success or failure) once it is initiated. Although political geography cannot claim to answer the question of why revolutions take place, it can provide a basis for predicting where in a country political violence of a revolutionary nature will break out. By identifying a number of the critical patterns and sequences, the political geographer can determine not only where a revolution is most likely to occur but also where it is most likely to spread and why. From numerous case studies and from the vast amount of information available on
Geography · Geopolitics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · History · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1982 - 2010 (29) |
| Highly cited | No |