Military Coups in Sub-Saharan Africa: How to Justify Illegal Assumptions of PowerScandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1983 - 144 páginas This book is a comparative study of military coups between 1958 and 1980. Africa south of the Sahara. It also provides background information on the causes of some refugee exoduses, for example, from Zaire, Sudan, Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda. There are three parts. The first deals with different theories concerning 'coups d'état' on a general level. The second part is an empirical review concentrating on the justifications given by military leaders immediately after their interventions. The third part analyses the attempts by the military to explain their involvement in politics. The author concludes that military coups rarely take place during periods of social unrest and that the military are very sensitive to civilian intrusion into what they regard as primarily military business. |
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... African coups since the military organizations in the African countries have not attained the same level of development and since class conflicts are not as manifest as in Latin America . The confinement of this study to a given ...
... African coups since the military organizations in the African countries have not attained the same level of development and since class conflicts are not as manifest as in Latin America . The confinement of this study to a given ...
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... African philosophy . In his policies and his poetry he has asserted the intrinsic nature of the African people and has constructed his philosophy around such concepts as " negritude " and " africanism ” . Yet this does not stop his ...
... African philosophy . In his policies and his poetry he has asserted the intrinsic nature of the African people and has constructed his philosophy around such concepts as " negritude " and " africanism ” . Yet this does not stop his ...
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... African states and the organizational features of African armies as reasons for coups to the internal dynamics of African military hierarchies , their officer cliques , and corporate and personal ambitions " . And a little further on he ...
... African states and the organizational features of African armies as reasons for coups to the internal dynamics of African military hierarchies , their officer cliques , and corporate and personal ambitions " . And a little further on he ...
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Introduction | 9 |
Explanations Connected with GovernmentMilitary Relations | 48 |
Explanations Connected with Individual Perspectives | 67 |
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accused Africa Afrikanska militärkupper armed conflict armed forces army army's assume power attempts Bassam Tibi BBC op.cit Burundi change of power cited civilian government civilian politicians civilian rule concerned connection corruption countries country's coupmakers coups d'état Dahomey Decalo discontent disturbances economic failures Esprit de corps ethical precepts ethnic and regional example explain foreign intervention foreign policy Ghana Gowon Ibid Idi Amin important justification influence initial declarations Instigator interests Kouandété leaders legitimacy Liberia Lieutenant-Colonel metropole military coups military establishment military intervention military regimes military rule military takeover motives nation Nigeria Nkrumah Nordlinger 1977 Nordlinger's Obote officer corps performance failures police action political control political unrest Politically limited coup President previous regime professional recognition researchers responsibility rulers Rwanda seized power Sierra Leone society Soglo Somalia statements sub-justification Sudan threats Tibi Togo Type of change Type of coup Uganda Upper Volta Welch Jr Zaire