DESTABILIZING TECHNOLOGIES OF POLITICAL REGIMES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Abstract

The article is devoted to technologies of destabilization of political regimes, which led to a wave of uprisings in North Africa, dubbed the “Arab spring”. The consequences of these uprisings can be observed so far. Thus, there is an actual problem of prevention and counteraction to the use of such technologies with the aim of maintaining stability within the country. The article describes the main methods of destabilization of political regimes, the factors of their vulnerability to threats of destabilization. The use of technologies of destabilization during the “color revolutions” has been analyzed and the most effective and common ones have been marked. Also the methods of destabilization of political regimes that are given in the article are illustrated by historical examples of color revolutions in Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, Georgia, Yemen, Syria, Tunisia, and Egypt. Statistical data is allowing to analyze the socio-economic condition of the countries before and after the color revolutions. Presented and analyzed the approaches of Western scholars to the classification of revolutions and technologies of political instability. The author analyzes the writings of J. Goldstone, J. Sharpe, S. Huntington, the theory of the Twitter revolution. The article gives extensive theoretical and practical analysis of technologies of destabilization of political regimes on the basis of Russian and foreign sources that are printed and published in the Internet