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Unlike the
coups
that overthrew Greece’s democracy in 1967 or Czechoslovakia’s Prague Spring a year later, the usurpers wore suits and sipped mineral water.
Every so often, centrists from the Radical Civic Union were voted into office, but their terms ended quickly, in resignations or
coups.
While intrigues and
coups
are possible, Musharraf's survival is likely because he will not threaten the enormous powers and privileges of the institution he heads and which is the only one that can seriously threaten him--Pakistan's military.
The three military
coups
Turkey endured in 1960, 1971, and 1980 brought neither prosperity nor stability to the country.
Daniel Pipes, an American polemicist, has gone so far as almost to endorse the military
coups
of 1960, 1971, 1980, and 1997, arguing that “on four occasions between 1960 and 1997, the military intervened to repair a political process gone awry.”
Judging on the basis of Pakistan, and much of the rest of the Muslim world, periods of (corrupt) civilian rule will alternate with “cleansing” military
coups.
Thus, Beck falsely charges that Soros has instigated
coups
abroad while implying that he plans to carry one out in the US.
It is right to demand strong reforms of a mismanaged debtor government; but if the debtor is pushed too hard, it is the society that breaks, leading to instability, violence, coups, and pervasive human suffering.
True, the Turkish military was not interested in governing directly, and handed power back to civilian governments after its
coups.
According to new research by Theresa Schroeder of Radford University and Jonathan Powell of the University of Central Florida, female heads of state may be more likely to provoke military
coups
in countries where armies are powerful enough to stage them.
The paper cites several examples of attempted
coups
against woman leaders.
Another reason why female leaders might be more likely to attract
coups
is the belief, conscious or unconscious, that a woman in charge must have obtained her post through family or marital connections.
In Zimbabwe, as in all coups, much behind-the-scenes plotting continues to take place.
Long before there was Islamist terrorism in the West, the United Kingdom, France, and the US relied on diplomatic chicanery and launched coups, wars, and covert operations in the Middle East to assert and maintain Western political control over the region.
In the last century,
coups
d’état were often the means by which (mostly military) rulers remained in power for many years, outlawing and persecuting the opposition.
Parliament, political parties, and politicians then came and went alternately with military coups, which invariably suppressed the maturation of democratic institutions.
First, Putin’s foreign-policy coups, while opportunistic, have been cautious.
But now Pakistan’s government increasingly recognizes that it may have become the main victim of its Kashmir policy, which has left the country with a distorted polity and a military that has carried out four
coups
and calls the shots from behind the scenes.
Wade’s inertia is particularly damaging because instability elsewhere in West Africa – civil and foreign wars,
coups
d’état, predatory corruption, and trafficking of all kinds – gives Senegal a chance to position itself as a regional power.
The time has come for a sensible, humane, and professional new approach that would scale up investment in education while scaling back expenditures on wars, coups, and weaponry.
The king represented stability during a period of repeated
coups
and wars in Indochina, and the United States and other foreign powers embraced him.
Soon enough, Thailand’s elites struck back, and the country’s politics descended into a cycle of palace-endorsed coups, elected governments, and violent street protests.
In the past, this key regional actor suffered perennial economic crises, bouts of hyperinflation, and occasional military
coups
that, brutal as some were, seemed to many Turks a welcome respite from weak center-left and center-right governments.
Foxes will often agree with hedgehogs up to a point, before complicating things: “Yes, my colleague is right that the Saudi monarchy is vulnerable, but remember that
coups
are rare and that the government commands many means of squelching opposition.”
But in a region often associated with
coups
d’état and authoritarian rule, Liberia’s progress is worthy of celebration, as it can help to lay the foundation for a better, more democratic future.
A cursory glance at most of the conflict-ridden countries in Africa shows that monopolization of political power over extended periods of time has not only helped institutionalize corruption, as leaders surround themselves with trusted relatives and cronies, but has also been a major cause of
coups
and conflict.
Thailand, by contrast, has twice reverted from popular rule to military dictatorship in the past decade, owing to
coups
in 2006 and 2014.
The results in both cases have been a political history devoid of coups, and financial savings that can be used for education, investment, and other good things.
What happened was that for the first time in modern Arab history, authoritarian regimes and rulers were toppled, or seriously challenged, by popular demonstrations, not – as in the past – through military
coups.
For nearly 100 years, first the British empire and then the US manipulated Middle Eastern governments, launched coups, bought puppet regimes, and supported wars, with the main purpose of controlling the region’s oil flows.
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