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Essay Questions
Please answer one of the questions below. Your essay should be 3000 words
including references and footnotes but not the bibliography. We are looking for a
combination of theoretical and empirical material, not just potted histories of
revolutions.
1. How might we make predictions about revolutions using revolutionary theory
2. Which of these three factors was least important in the French revolution:
regime weakness, revolutionary agency, or mass collective behaviour
3. Critically evaluate Frantz Fanon’s theory of revolution violence. Is it still
relevant
1. To what extent does the Haitian revolution reflect Tarrow’s ideas of cycles of
contention
2. The events of 1848 can not be considered to be revolutions because they failed
to survive the reactionary backlash. Discuss with reference to two revolutions
of 1848.
3. The Irish Revolution was the most successful of the revolutions after World War
One
4. World War One served as a brake on revolution not as a catalyst. Discuss with
reference to two revolutions before or after World War One.
5. Discuss the legacy of World War Two in relation to the postcolonial revolutions
in the Middle East and North Africa in the 1950s and 1960s. Your answer should
refer to at least two countries.
6. How were the Islamists able to dominate the Iranian Revolution by the end of
1979
7. What were the main international consequences of the Iranian Revolution
8. To what extent did the 1979 Iranian Revolution achieve its promised goals of
social justice, freedom and democracy, and independence from great power
tutelage
9. Did the 1989 revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe in 1989 challenge
Stephen Walt’s theory about the relationship between revolutions and war
10.Why did so many authoritarian right wing regimes collapse during the third wave
of democratisation
11.“Many so-called ‘colour revolutions’ are not revolutions at all: the regime was
not really overthrown.” How, and to what extent do you agree or disagree with
this statement
12.How should we define a revolution and why Answer with reference to
empirical examples from the course.
13. Does the French Revolution still prove an instructive case for understanding
revolutions today
14.The 1791 Haitian Revolution and the Revolutions of 1989 in Central and
Eastern Europe were only possible because of the collapse of power and
legitimacy in the Imperial Centre. Discuss
15.What did the revolutions of 1848 have in common beyond their timing
16.Is it more accurate to conceptualise the 1952 Egyptian revolution as a coup
d’état
17.Why do revolutions so often lead to inter-state wars
18.To what extent did the Iranian Revolution challenge the orthodox structuralist
view that revolutions are not consciously ‘made’ and revolutionary movements
cannot overthrow a system that has not already broken down
19.Should we conceptualise the ‘Arab Spring’ as a series of failed revolutions, or
a series of successful counter-revolutions
20.Discuss the role of women’s rights activism in the Arab Spring. Your answer
should refer to at least three countries in the Middle East and North Africa.