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Do Constitutional Rights and Human Rights Matter?

Andrew Keane Woods Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 11:00 AM

At this particular moment, it is more than reasonable to wonder whether constitutional rights and human rights matter. Fortunately, a large number of legal scholars and political scientists have attempted to answer this question. Unfortunately, they have been using the wrong tools.

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A Dissertation on the Strategic Logic of Military Coups

Kenneth Anderson Fri, Jul 15, 2016, 8:35 PM

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.

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