Jordan Moment
My name is Jordan Moment, my hometown is Boston, MA. I am a graduate of Classical High School, and I’m currently a senior at Rhode Island College majoring in Political Science and Public Administration. My research is about the social and political changes that lead to revolution. I will examine whether or not revolutions change a State in a sustainable way. In terms of my aspirations, they are pretty simple—I want to create a new subfield of state-analysis, because most people in my disciple are trapped within the dynamics of the 20th century. Also, because the field of Political Science completely lacks any historical consideration of government, social organization, and international dynamics. With that being said, McNair has provided me the opportunity and resources to attend graduate school and accomplish my goal of usurping the prevalence of Western thought in our theoretical political processes. My motto is “nothing last forever, not even forever.”
ABSTRACT: This research looks at the sociopolitical conflict behind and leading up to the French and Haitian Revolutions as well as the international political, economic, military, and social responses to the emergence of these incidents while critiquing the ultimate success of each revolution and the factors leading to either conclusion. This paper will primarily be carried out through a review of primary and secondary sources that will be applied to a more general framework that deconstructs the processes that created the conditions for a revolution. The results of this analysis will be able to conclude whether or not the French and Haitian Revolutions reconstructed and created states that were viable in both interstate and intrastate relations. The anticipated outcome is that neither Revolution created states that were both viable due to the factors that lead to specific choices within the transition to Revolutionary states
