Activists and analysts increasingly join the Arab Spring with Occupy Wall Street. And some now recognize this historical juncture to have more in common with the transformative social movements of 1968 than with 1989, the year in which east European dictatorships were overturned by democratic..
Michael D. Kennedy
Michael Kennedy is Professor of Sociology and International Studies at Brown University. He is the author of Cultural Formations of Postcommunism (2002) and Professionals, Power and Solidarity in Poland (1991). He has co-edited Globalizations and Social Movements: Culture, Power, and the Transnational Public Sphere (2000) and Responsibility in Crisis: Knowledge Politics and Global Publics (2004).