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Seizing Power : The Strategic Logic of Military Coups /

"While coups drive a majority of regime changes and are responsible for the overthrow of many democratic governments, there has been very little empirical work on the subject. Seizing Power develops a new theory of coup dynamics and outcomes, drawing on 300 hours of interviews with coup partici...

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Autor principal: Singh, Naunihal (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction -- Theory -- Counting coups -- Coups from the top of the military -- Coups from the middle -- Coups from the bottom -- USSR, 1991: three days that changed the world -- Conclusion. 
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