ABSTRACT
This chapter asks what happens if a revolution or an independence struggle is ever successful. In such cases, the controlled essentially becomes the controller. A figure is introduced to show how the successful revolutionary moves from being the controlled to become the controller in a new regime, while the vanquished controller becomes the controlled. The chapter then explores the transition from revolutionary state to a variety of regime types, including totalitarian, authoritarian, democratic, and failed states, examining the differences among autocracies, anocracies, and democracies. The chapter also looks at the relationship between economic liberalization and democratization, as well as the difference between insecure and secure democracies, liberal and illiberal democracies, and the relationship between democratization and violence, both nonstate and state. The chapter will conclude by attempting to develop a typology of regime types that uses the conceptual framework developed in Part II and the pattern of communicative interaction between controller and controlled across the full spectrum of policy domains, to identify different variants of the terrorism–counterterrorism nexus across regime type.
