Coup d'etat, a practical handbook
By: Edward Luttwak.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Coups d'etat -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Description: The coup is the most frequently attempted method of changing government, and the most successful. Coup d' État outlines the mechanism of the coup and analyzes the conditions--political, military, and social, that gives rise to it. In doing so, the book sheds much light on societies where power does indeed grow out of the barrel of a gun and the role of law is a concept little understood.--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes index.