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When the Shah of Iran was forced to leave his country in January 1979 two knowledgeable and prominent Americans publicly offered strikingly different interpretations of what had caused his political downfall.
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A useful summary of the evolution of this literature may be found in Jack A. Goldstone, ‘Theories of Revolution: The Third Generation’, World Politics (April 1980), pp. 425–53.
See, for example, John B. Oakes, ‘Like the Shah, President Marcos’, New York Times, 6 July 1980.
For more detail on a continuing effort that follows these guidelines, see Steven E. Miller, Stephen M. Meyer, and Michael Nacht, ‘Everything You Ever Wanted to Ask about Patterns of Political Instability in Developing Countries and their Implications for American Policy but Were Afraid to Know’, mimeo, Harvard University, June 1980.
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Nacht, M. (1982). Internal Change and Regime Stability. In: Bertram, C. (eds) Third-World Conflict and International Security. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06312-3_7
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