Parallelism: A Handbook of Social Analysis

About the Book

Parallelism is a theory of social processes. It represents an attempt at systematizing historical events. Other scholars have sought to employ similar approaches and methods. This has led in political science to the development of a series of theories and classificatory schemas for revolutions, wars, political systems, etc. The parallelistic approach assumes that such processes can not only be understood but manifestly justified and exposed through the use of predictive power. Currently this approach has identified two macro-historical patterns. The first is Revolution Pattern Type A, the second, Paternalistic Regime/Hegemonic War Pattern Type A.

About the Author

Dr. Matthew C. Wells received his Ph.D. in political science in 1999. His major area of concentration is in comparative politics. Dr. Wells has taught courses on political philosophy, the Middle East, and Europe at both Kent State University and John Carroll University. He has also been an independent security consultant for the US Navy (Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic Iran, Iraq, Mid-East, etc.). Dr. Wells is also the director of The Center for the Study of Political Parallelism (www.parallelism.org), and is a founding member of the Society for the Policy Sciences at Yale University.