Introduction

This is chapter 23, The Sociology of Revolution, part one. You're listening to Designing the Revolution. All right, so we're about to embark on this joint journey as you were into this project of regime change in Syria. And then the last chapter, I tried to sort of cheer you up a bit because you're probably feeling a bit nervous about it and say, look, this sort of thing happens all the time. Regime's collapse, this is why they collapse,. They get into irrational herding behavior, they get into debt, they getting into sort of collective stupidity cycles and all the rest of it.