Everything Is a Color Revolution: The Corrosion of Geopolitical Analysis

On the dangers of seeing foreign plots everywhere

Raphael Machado explains how to separate real regime-change operations from viral unrest.

Few things have been more important for geopolitical analysis and for the maturation of the study of contemporary political history than the construction of the concept of “color revolution” in the middle of the first decade of the new millennium, used to study the …