Vincent Bevins

In 1965, Indonesia witnessed one of the most horrendous events of the twentieth century: the mass killing of approximately one million innocent civilians. This massacre, covertly backed by the U.S. government and conducted by the Indonesian military, represented a crucial turning point in global geopolitics. The systematic extermination targeted the thriving Indonesian Communist Party, then the largest in the world...

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution by Vincent Bevins delves deeply into the world-shaking mass protests that defined the second decade of the twenty-first century. Through a meticulous examination of uprisings from the Arab Spring to Hong Kong's student rebellions, Bevins explores why, despite the fervent activity, these protests so often failed to achieve their...

From 2010 to 2020, more people took part in protests than at any other point in history. But what type of change did they deliver? From the so-called Arab Spring and Gezi Park in Turkey, to Ukraine's Euromaidan and student rebellions in Chile and Hong Kong, this decade was propelled by explosive mass demonstrations. If We Burn is a stirring...