African countries have witnessed a significant decline in military coups since the 1990s, yet civil-military relations (CMRs) are still problematic and are further complicated by the episodic occurrence of military coups particularly since 2000. Since Ghana returned to multiparty politics in 1992, the...
Perhaps it is a truism on its own that African post-colonial countries were born and nurtured with a proneness to coups. Kwame Nkrumah, the first black president of a post-colonial African country, Ghana, was overthrown in a military coup on 24 February 1966. Soon after the coup, Colonel ...
The Military in Politics . . .4 He was sharply disproved in his expectations when Ghana and Nigeria experienced military coups in 1966. In Latin America especially, it is heard that size of the armies is a basic cause of instability. However, the African... AC Stepan 被引量: 35发表: 0...
(46%)weresuccessful. •Ifoneincludesmilitaryplots,wherecoupleaders werearrestedbeforetheywereabletolaunch militaryaction,thenumberofattemptedcoups goesupto257. •Bytheendofthe1980s,theemergenceofpro- democracymovementsandseveralsuccessful transitionstodemocracyledtoarebirthof civilianregimesintentonpermanently...
Chiefs of staff from member states of the West African bloc had been set to attend a meeting on Saturday in Ghana's capital Accra, regional military sources had said on Friday. France grants full support to ECOWAS deployment of regional military force France “fully supports” the Economic ...
Ghana provides two examples of disengagement. Sierra Leone and Nigeria each provide one example. Many of the details of these events are presented in the context of regional dynamics, as well as the economics and inherited patterns of civil-military relations. The author concludes that these cases...
Recent events in three West African states-Ghana, Liberia, and Upper Volta-raise questions as to whether there has been a change in the nature of military coups and military regimes in Africa. All three regimes started off as "populist'"; that is, leaders tried to have direct contact with...
252 pp. Seizing Power: The Strategic Logic of Military Coups is Alabama-based Air War College Professor Naunihal Singh's well-researched study of the strategic logic behind military coups d'etat, particularly emphasizing such coups in African countries. It tab...
Military coups have posed a persistent threat to political stability in Africa---undermining democratization efforts, initiating lasting cycles of intra-military violence, and even descending into civil war. Since decolonization, over 200 coup attempts have been made across the continent. This ...
The governments of Upper Volta, Nigeria and Ghana were toppled in quick succession by the military in early 1966. Thereafter, military coups have occurred so frequently in different parts of Africa that they have lost their capacity to shock, though not to disturb, African opinion. Thus, since...