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Revolutionary Overthrow of Constitutional Orders in Africa /
The subject of revolutionary overthrow of constitutional orders in Africa is at the intersection of three disciplines: jurisprudence and legal philosophy, constitutional law and power politics, and civil-military relations, that is, military security policy which is one aspect of national security p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Mankon, Bamenda :
Labngaa Research & Publishg CIG : Distributed by African Books Collective,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Pictures; POLITICAL MAP OF AFRICA; Chapter 1. Introduction; Coup in the then Republic of Transkei; Meaning of coup d'état; Armed rebellion as old as history; Monarchy, early target of coups; Farcical incompetence in some coup attempts; Coup, shortcut to political power; COUP and NON-COUP AFRICAN COUNTRIES; Chapter 2. The Military, a Frankenstein Monster; The military, regime security and national security; Contested subordination of the military to civilian control; Strategies for asserting control over the military
- Joint civil-military rulershipChapter 3. Why Overthrow a Government; Practical considerations; Theoretical bases; Coups typologies; Chapter 4. How to Stage a Coup; Prior agreement on salient matters; Strategic control of the capital; emergency measures; Judges and civil servants; Coup by the executive; Chapter 5. Coups and the International Community; Attitude of international organizations generally; Attitude of Western countries generally; Attitude of the African Union specifically; Chapter 6. Grundnorm and Revolutionary Legality; Grundnorm and the hierarchy of norms
- Grudnorm and coup d'étatHierarchy of norms and revolutionary destruction of the grundnorm; Further explication of the meaning of grundnorm; Possibility of legal void following a coup; Authority and legitimacy of the usurper government; International law and recognition of the usurper government; National constitution and military coup; Chapter 7. Usurper Government: its Legitimacy and the Validity of its Acts; Judges and the overthrow of government; Legitimacy of the usurper government; De jure status of the usurper regime: the doctrine of effectiveness
- De facto status of the usurper regime: the doctrine salus populi suprema lexChapter 8. Facing the Coup Challenge in Africa; What to do about coups; What to do with Africa's military; What to do with Africa's despotic executives; Coup counter-measures; Case for coups; Case against coups; Chapter 9. Countries where there has been no Military Rule (Yet); Where no coup has been attempted; Where a coup or an insurgency attempt failed; Chapter 10. Countries where there has been one coup (so far); Cape Verde; Côte d'Ivoire; Egypt; Equatorial Guinea; Gambia; Libya; Seychelles; Togo; Tunisia
- Chapter 11. Countries where there has been more than one coupAlgeria; Benin; Burkina Faso; Burundi; Central African Republic; Chad; Comoros; Republic of the Congo; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Ethiopia; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Lesotho; Liberia; Madagascar; Mali; Mauritania; Niger; Nigeria; Rwanda; São Tomé and Príncipe; Sierra Leone; Somalia; South African Homelands (apartheid era); Sudan; Uganda; Chapter 12. Epilogue: Neo-patrimonial Governance andRevolutionary Overthrow of Governments in Africa; The rise of the neo-patrimonial state in Africa