“Syrian spring” and the ultimate stress limit of Bashar Assad regime

... whole picture looks not only different but directly opposite to the vision of the “Arab spring” as a wave of democracy. The Theory of “Black” and “White” Revolutions All this makes one recall the beginning of the Iranian revolution of 1978. The Islamic revolution in Iran was a great enigma to Western political analysts. Meanwhile, there is nothing difficult in explaining the sources of the Iranian revolution. Innovations of the Shah’s regime were a typical “white” ...