successful revolution at a stochastic cost. I incorporate this mechanism in a three-country, two-good trade model where countries … revolution is expected to generate trade frictions between the mother country and the rebel colony. Thus, the attractiveness of … revolution and the sustainability of empire come to depend on the capacity of the rebel colony to access international markets …

The 1979 Iranian Revolution undoubtedly belongs to the "great" revolutions of modern times - all of which were … the revolution should no longer be exported actively, but that Iran should serve as an example. Consequently, Supreme … Leader Khamenei called the events of the Arab Spring a "natural enlargement of Iran's Islamic revolution of 1979" and …