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The Democratic Coup d'Etat (Paperback)
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The Democratic Coup d'Etat (Paperback)
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The term coup d'etat-French for stroke of the state-brings to mind
coups staged by power-hungry generals who overthrow the existing
regime, not to democratize, but to concentrate power in their own
hands as dictators. We assume all coups look the same, smell the
same, and present the same threats to democracy. It's a powerful,
concise, and self-reinforcing idea. It's also wrong. In The
Democratic Coup d'Etat, Ozan Varol advances a simple, yet
controversial, argument: Sometimes, a democracy is established
through a military coup. Covering events from the Athenian Navy's
stance in 411 B.C. against a tyrannical home government, to coups
in the American colonies that ousted corrupt British governors, to
twentieth-century coups that toppled dictators and established
democracy in countries as diverse as Guinea-Bissau, Portugal, and
Colombia, the book takes the reader on a gripping journey.
Connecting the dots between these neglected events, Varol weaves a
balanced narrative that challenges everything we thought we knew
about military coups. In so doing, he tackles several baffling
questions: How can an event as undemocratic as a military coup lead
to democracy? Why would imposing generals-armed with tanks and guns
and all-voluntarily surrender power to civilian politicians? What
distinguishes militaries that help build democracies from those
that destroy them? Varol's arguments made headlines across the
globe in major media outlets and were cited critically in a public
speech by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Written for a
general audience, this book will entertain, challenge, and provoke,
but more importantly, serve as a reminder of the imperative to
question the standard narratives about our world and engage with
all ideas, no matter how controversial.
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