Part I: Background
Introduction: “No Farewell to Arms” in Africa?
George Klay Kieh, Jr. and Kelechi Kalu
Chapter 1: Coups d’etat: Theoretical Issues
Kelechi Kalu
Part II: Case Studies
Chapter 2: Military Coup in Burkina Faso
Daniel Eizenga
Chapter 3: Governance, Democratization and Military Coups in Cote d’Ivoire
Henry Kam Kah
Chapter 4: The Military, the Developmental State and the 2013 Coup in Egypt
Zeyad el Nabolsy
Chapter 5: Post-Third Wave “Praetorianism” in Mauritania
Boubacar N’Diaye
Chapter 6: Post-1990 Military Coups in Sierra Leone
Umar Salman Kamara
Chapter 7: Military Intervention and the 2019 Coup in the Sudan
Bitrus Nuhu Mailabari
Part III: Toward the Prevention of Coups
Chapter 8: The African Union’s Anti-Coup Regime
George Klay Kieh, Jr.
Part IV: Lessons and Insights
Conclusion: Toward Caging the Coup “Genie” in Africa
George Klay Kieh, Jr. and Kelechi Kalu
George Klay Kieh, Jr. is dean of the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs and professor of political science at Texas Southern University, and professor in the Graduate Program in International Relations at the African Methodist Episcopal University (AMEU), Liberia.
Kelechi Kalu is professor of political science at the University of California, Riverside.
In the transitory and dynamic world of scholarship, Democratization and Military Coups in Africa: Post-1990 Political Conflicts is a welcome re-engagement with the ever-present 'man on the horse back' in Africa's political vineyard.
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