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Coups

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What Coups and Elections Have in Common

  • March 30, 2022
Guest post by Josef Woldense and Jun Koga Sudduth For Russia’s President Putin, the invasion of neighboring Ukraine…
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Are Military Coups Back in Style in Africa?

  • December 1, 2021
Guest post by Sean M. Zeigler The seizure of power in October by the Sudanese military, and the…
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Silent Guns: Examining the Two-Year Absence of Coups in Africa

  • September 18, 2017
Guest Post by Rebecca Schiel and Jonathan Powell This Sunday, 17 September 2017, marks two years since the…
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Conflict, Generations, and Long-term Change in Civil-Military Relations

  • July 19, 2017
Guest post by Peter B. White. While the number of coups and military regimes has declined since the…
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Why a Coup in Egypt, and Why Now?

  • July 12, 2013
By Barbara F. Walter Last week’s puzzler posed two questions. First, why has the number of coups in Sub-Sahara…
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Democracy and Coups: Taking Civilian Control of the Military for Granted

  • August 28, 2012
By Steve Saideman This post is part of the “Would Someone Please Explain This to Me?” series.  Reader Luis asks:…
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