Color revolutions: An Analytic & Comparative study

Abstract

The outbreak of color revolutions in post-communism, Latin-American, Middle East were cause scholars to survey different dimension and traits of this new revolutions from diverse dimensions. In this way, offering a comprehensive and theoretic framework from mixing of the available theories and objective elements of these revolutions and analyzing victor and defeated color revolutions are the main purposes of this article. Moreover essence and nature of color revolutions as a political and may be social phenomenon will necessitate scaling this concept from the other political and social phenomenon such as social movements and rebellions, revolution, reform, etc

Keywords

• color revolution
• soft war
• subversion
• social mobilization
• civil disobedience
• psychological operation
• election fraud