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Episode: Revolutions and world order: still the 'Sixth Great Power'?
Description: Contributor(s): Professor George Lawson, Dr Jasmine K Gani | This lecture, held in honour of the renowned scholar Fred Halliday, will explore the relationship between revolutions and world order in contemporary geopolitics.
Fred Halliday argued that revolutions were the âsixth great powerâ of the modern world, a force that sat alongside the five great powers that sought to regulate 19th century world politics. Does Hallidayâs assessment of the impact of revolutions remain true today?
This talk analyses the three main forms that revolution takes today â âpeople powerâ movements, ârestoration revolutionsâ and âdecentralised vanguardismâ â and assesses their impact on contemporary world order. It argues...