Elections and Coup Risk in Zimbabwe One Year after the Coup d’État
Guest post by Jonathan Powell and Clayton Besaw. The removal of Robert Mugabe from Zimbabwe’s presidency in November…
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Silent Guns: Examining the Two-Year Absence of Coups in Africa
Guest Post by Rebecca Schiel and Jonathan Powell This Sunday, 17 September 2017, marks two years since the…
Conflict, Generations, and Long-term Change in Civil-Military Relations
Guest post by Peter B. White. While the number of coups and military regimes has declined since the…
Understanding Military (Non)Support in the Wake of Constitutional Coups
By Kara Kingma Neu and Deborah Avant. Scholars of democratization in Africa have witnessed a troubling trend: an…
What Happens When Peacekeepers Come Home (Spoiler: No One Really Knows)?
Guest post by Jonathan D. Caverley and Jesse Dillon Savage. In November last year, President Obama announced a plan…
Nonviolent Conflicts in 2014 You May Have Missed Because They Were Not Violent
By Erica Chenoweth Last week, Steven Pinker and Andy Mack wrote an article reassuring Slate readers that the…