News article added on Aug 13 2008
Dr Donnacha O Beachain will join CIS in Sept 2008, with three years financial support from the European Commission's international re-integration scheme. Dr O Beachain has been working in the Department of Political Science in Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics, and Strategic Research, Almaty. His research will probe the significance of the ‘colour revolution’ regime-change process - popular shorthand to describe as a single phenomenon a number of non-violent protests that succeeded in overthrowing post-communist authoritarian regimes (e.g. Georgia, 2003; Ukraine, 2004; Kyrgyzstan, 2005). The project will seek to generate a theory of ‘colour revolutions’ that can provide some common points for the changes that have occurred.