Revolution

An Armenian protest leader just secured the office of prime minister by a landslide—but, thanks to his own efforts, he’ll still face plenty of opposition.

The country’s Velvet Revolution took its cues from democratic movements in Latin America rather than from other revolutions in the post-Soviet world. Here’s why that’s a good thing.

As India’s police conjure up the specter of urban Maoist terror, the real insurgency remains deep in the jungle.

Not every post-Soviet revolution is about the geopolitics of Russia.

Leftists want to celebrate revolutionary idealism; conservatives, the triumph of traditional authority. And Emmanuel Macron is trying to split the difference.

Greece’s prolonged austerity has given rise to a movement of middle-class anarchism.

The first steps have to be international diplomacy, and lifting the travel ban.

Tehran's adventures abroad have triggered anger at home. Here's how American foreign policy can step up.

Remembering the lives they lived IRL through a URL.

The Turkish president’s post-coup crackdowns are following in the footsteps of Iran’s Islamic revolution.

Twenty-five years after the great revolution that toppled the Soviet regime, the spirit of dignity and freedom still burns.

In the coming years, the population of people under the age of 30 in some of the most fragile and unstable countries is going to skyrocket. And the world is not ready for them.

Ameenah Gurib-Fakim and Ory Okolloh discuss the continent's brain drain and debate the best ways to keep talent at home.

An unexpected turn after a clash between Free Syrian Army forces and Jabhat al-Nusra fighters offers a window into who’s really winning hearts and minds.

Slandering democratic protesters as foreign stooges is a favorite tactic of authoritarian regimes. Here’s how to beat it.

How expatriates ran a covert campaign to funnel millions of dollars worth of aid into one of Syria’s worst-hit towns -- right under Assad’s nose.

The world’s dictators are aging — but democrats shouldn’t be too quick to rejoice.

Two thousand young men and women, equipped with 10 weeks of training, have been sent into the streets of Kiev to convince Ukrainians that the days of a corrupt and brutal militsiya are over. Can 'my new police' rescue a faltering revolution?

A nuclear accord could be just what the mullahs in Tehran need to turn into responsible actors.