Jack Goldstone, "Why Revolutions Persist – The Struggle for Freedom and Fragile Regimes"

Professor Goldstone is the Virginia E. and John T. Hazel Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World; Why Europe? The Rise of the West in World History; and nine other books as well as over 100 research articles on topics in politics, social movements, democratization, and social change. He has appeared on NPR, CNN, Al-Jazeera, Fox News, and written for Foreign Policy, The New York Times, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, Al-Hayat and the International Herald Tribune.

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