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This paper examines the role of civil society in regime change, drawing on the example of the 2006 government change in Nepal. The author argues that the example of Nepal reveals ways in which civil societies in the developing world are evolving as policy instruments in domestic politics and interstate relations. The paper concludes that the mobilization of the dispersed and diffuse constituencies of civil society in the media, NGOs and professional groups played a critical role in the dismantling of the royal government.