We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In "Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present" (W.W. Norton), journalist and CNN anchor Fareed ...

Most revolutions do have specific goals and demands, most of the successful ones do have organized leadership that can mobilize at least a dedicated cadre of followers, and most have some idea what ...

The politics of naming and its implications (why some events were called and treated as revolutions in their times, only to be renamed differently in the scholarship) More often than not, scholarship ...

When it comes to explaining global politics and world events, few faces are more familiar to viewers than Fareed Zakaria's. He hosts CNN's international affairs show, "GPS," which debuted in 2008.

The Bastille looms large in the revolutionary imagination. When Paris crowds seized the French king’s fortress in July 1789, they unwittingly created a model for every subsequent upheaval. From the ...

In June, 2018, the political commentator Fareed Zakaria found himself in the Campo de’ Fiori, in the center of Rome, with Steve Bannon, who was then President Trump’s chief strategist. Bannon—whom ...

In a sweeping account, Philpott argues that transformations in ideas about justice and political authority have given shape to struggles over state sovereignty at such critical historical turning ...

Revolutions have a depressing tendency to go bad. The first American Revolution in 1775 is an exception, but the rule has been for well-intentioned revolutions to turn very ugly very quickly. The ...

In the last few weeks thousands, possibly millions, of demonstrators on the streets of Cairo and Tunis have called for the ouster of aging, authoritarian leaders, just as crowds gathered a few years ...