Naunihal singh ips biography books
Naunihal singh ips biography books list!
Seizing Power: The Strategic Logic of Military Coups
While coups drive a majority of regime changes and are responsible for the overthrow of many democratic governments, there has been very little empirical work on the subject.
Naunihal singh ips biography books
Seizing Power develops a new theory of coup dynamics and outcomes, drawing on hours of interviews with coup participants and an original dataset of coup attempts worldwide from to Naunihal Singh delivers a concise and empirical evaluation, arguing that understanding the dynamics of military factions is essential to predicting the success or failure of coups.
Singh draws on an aspect of game theory known as a coordination game to explain coup dynamics. He finds a strong correlation between successful coups and the ability of military actors to project control and the inevitability of success.
Examining Ghana’s multiple coups and the coup attempt in the USSR, Singh shows how military actors project an image of impending victory that is often more p