Moreover, coups from the top recalibrate authoritarian elite coalitions and serve to sustain autocratic rule; they rarely produce an opening for a democratic transition. Successful coups from below, by contrast, can result in the breakdown of authoritarian regimes and generate an opening for ...
Coup Agency and Prospects for Democracy COUPS d'etatDEMOCRACYINTERVENTION (International law)MILITARY officersPOWER (Social sciences)AUTHORITARIANISMPOLITICAL elitesLOYALISTSThis research note introduces new... H Albrecht,K Koehler,A Schutz - 《International Studies Quarterly》 被引量: 0发表: 2021年 The ...
Recent headlines in the Globe and Mail (“Venezuelan crisis buoys prospects for Canadian heavy crude oil producers”) and Wall Street Journal (“Bond Prices in Venezuela Jump on Prospect of Regime Change”) suggest some short term reasons. But looking at the situation from a historical ...
While prospects of a coup in Zimbabwe “are very slim at the moment,” they “would be very high as we move towards the midterm of Mnangagwa’s second term,” he told Anadolu. “By then, it will be very clear that the challenges besetting Zimbabwe would be beyond his capacity ...
The students had arrived from Venezuela courtesy of the Center for Applied Non-Violent Action and Strategies, or CANVAS. This group is funded largely through the National Endowment for Democracy, a CIA cut-out that functions as the U.S. government’s main arm of promoting regime c...
The paper then reflects on Fiji's prospects for building a stable democratic order, arguing that one of the hurdles to overcome is a deep seated ambivalence in Fiji which coups have only reinforced about democracy and the rule of law.Tarte...
government, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and much of the U.S. media that Arbenz had close connections with the Soviet bloc proved to be unsubstantiated. Working in Honduras and El Salvador, the CIA helped to organize a counterrevolutionary army of exiles led by Col. Carlos Castillo...
s struggle for federal democracy and inclusive governance is laying the foundations for eventual transition to a fully democratic future or whether the cycles of violence will continue as the military continues to control power by using intimidation and fear. It notes that the coup has destroyed ...