| Coups and Army Rule in Africa: Motivations and Constraints, Second Edition Revised Edition Contributor(s): Decalo, Samuel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0300040431 ISBN-13: 9780300040432 Publisher: Yale University Press OUR PRICE: $76.23 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 1990 Annotation: Samuel Decalo presents detailed evidence from Dahomey, Togo, Congo/Brazzaville, and Uganda that African military coups are engineered by coteries of cliques composed of ambitious officers seeking self-advancement. He successfully refutes prevailing theories that military rule has fostered socioeconomic or political development or stability. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science |
| Dewey: 322.509 |
| LCCN: 89-49077 |
| Physical Information: 1.39" H x 5.83" W x 8.57" (1.30 lbs) 368 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: With permanent military rule widespread throughout Africa, it is clearly important to understand the role of the military in this continent. In Coups and Army Rule in Africa, published in 1976, Samuel Decalo examined four lesser-studied French-African states--the Congo, Benin, Uganda, and Togo--to discover what actually happened when military replaced civilian rule. He argued that African armies cannot be viewed as cohesive, Westernized hierarchies intervening in the political arena from altruistic motives but are instead coteries of cliques composed of ambitious officers seeking self-advancement. Military rule, said Decalo, has not necessarily fostered socioeconomic or political development or stability. Now in a new edition of his provocative book, Decalo defends his position, adding another case study, Niger, bringing the text up to date, and providing a new section on the constraints on military rule in each case study. |
