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The Complexities of Calling a Coup a Coup
Why is the U.S. government, and the Department of State in particular, slow to call a coup a coup?
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Why is the U.S. government, and the Department of State in particular, slow to call a coup a coup?
Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
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The noose around Turkish democracy’s neck tightened further on Monday, when the police raided the offices of yet another newspaper—this time Cumhuriyet—and detained a number of its journalists on accusations of facilitating terrorist activities.
In light of the coup attempt in Turkey (still apparently underway at this writing), I want to note a fairly recent book on coup d'etats from a political science perspective - Naunihal Singh's Seizing Power: The Strategic Logic of Military Coups (Johns Hopkins Press 2014). Singh is a professor at the Air War College in Alabama, and this volume appears to be a published version of his dissertation.