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Revolutionary Contagion and International Politics
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Revolutionary Contagion and International Politics
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Revolutionary Contagion and International Politics
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When do leaders fear that a revolution elsewhere will spread to their own polities, and what are the international effects of this fear? In
, Chad E. Nelson develops and tests a theory that explains how states react to ideological-driven revolutions that have occurred in other nations. To do this, he analyzes four key revolutionary movements over two centuries-liberalism, communism, fascism, and Islamism. He further explains that the key to understanding the response to revolutions lies in focusing on the extent to which leaders fear upheaval in their own countries. According to the theory, Nelson argues, fear of contagion is driven more by the characteristics of the host rather than the activities of the infecting agents. In other words, leaders will fear revolutionary contagion when they have significant revolutionary opposition movements that have an ideological affinity with the revolutionary state. A powerful theory of the profound effects revolutions have on international relations, this book shows why one simply cannot make sense of international politicsincluding patterns of alliances and warsin certain situations without considering the fear of contagion.