Counterexamples: fall of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Fourth Republic in France in 1954, English Civil War and the English royal restoration a few decades later.
Well, I guess the GP should have added "the government stupidly mass-murdering its citizens at random" to the other 3 causes.
About the fall of the Soviet Union, a lot of it was caused by each one of the GP's factors and the mass-murdering. You seem to want a clear case with a well defined "fall", but theirs wasn't it (like any supranacional empire).
It also puts the rebels on deaths ground. People who are on deaths ground with no way out will fight like they have nothing to loose but the noose.
Almost without fail, every fall of a government is caused by external invasion or lack of food/water.
All other issues people will complain about, but never act on en-mass.
Counterexamples: fall of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Fourth Republic in France in 1954, English Civil War and the English royal restoration a few decades later.
Well, I guess the GP should have added "the government stupidly mass-murdering its citizens at random" to the other 3 causes.
About the fall of the Soviet Union, a lot of it was caused by each one of the GP's factors and the mass-murdering. You seem to want a clear case with a well defined "fall", but theirs wasn't it (like any supranacional empire).
Syria 2006-2011, Ukraine next year
> The unrest coincided with the most intense drought ever recorded in Syria, which lasted from 2006 to 2011 and resulted in widespread crop failure,
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_civil_war
The fall of the government only occurred 14 years after the end of that drought though...
Depends which part of Syria we're talking about.