Revoluções de ponto de virada e revoluções por colapso do estado: Por que revoluções têm êxito ou fracassam?

Abstract

Revolutions succeed or fail in varying degrees. The article considers the Arab Spring revolts from the point of view of two kinds of processes of political change: tipping point revolution and the state breakdown revolution. Major revolutions are those that bring about big structural changes. Tipping point revolutions, without long-term basis in the structural factors that bring state breakdown, are only moderately successful at best; and they often fall short even of modest changes, devolving into destructive civil wars, or outright failure to change the regime at all.