Coups from Below
Subtitle: Armed Subalterns and State Power in West Africa
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: November 11, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781403967152
Subjects: Military government; Politics/International Relations; History - General History; Coups d'etat; Political Science; Political Freedom & Security - General; Military - General; Africa - West; Government - International; Social Science / Violence in Society; Civil-military relations; Violence in Society; Africa, West; Coups d'âetat
First sentence: Conventional scholarship on the military in Africa tends to focus almost exclusively on the causes of military coups, civilmilitary relations, the developmental role of the military, and military disengagement from politics.