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The failures of nominally elected governments has denied leaders - as well as the democratic system - a vanguard popular constituency.
Unimpressive democratic conditions and foreign influence in African countries make recent attempted and successful military takeovers unsurprising.
Rawlings was a polarising figure, a person who led two coups in Ghana before twice being elected president in multiparty polls.
Jerry Rawlings found a unique path to legitimise his military rule in Ghana.
Burkina Faso is still in the throes of chaos decades after the assasination of the charismatic president
ECOWAS needs to be decisive in enforcing its protocols and sanctioning members that flout the provisions of its protocols and policies.
From a global perspective, there was nothing unique about the recent raid on the U.S. Capitol. Both Republican and Democratic administrations have backed military coups around the world for decades.
Rather than denigrating other nations as banana republics for their penchant for insurrections and lawless coups, the United States needs to take a long look inward following the raid on the Capitol.
Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol on Jan. 6, disrupting Congress’s certification of Joe Biden as president-elect. Coup experts explain this violent insurrection wasn’t technically a coup.
After becoming Peru’s third president in six days, Francisco Sagasti must both lead the country into elections and build a better democracy. It’s a test Peruvian leaders largely failed 20 years ago.
Jerry John Rawlings remains the most polarizing political figure in Ghana since Kwame Nkrumah
A coup may be a quick fix for a problem leader, but history shows that coups beget more coups.
South Africa’s numerous interventions in Lesotho contribute to the acrimonious nature of its political culture.
The political crisis and any potential instability may once again force the military’s hand
Since the election of Donald Trump, the United States has been experiencing a slow-moving coup that is still in the process of toppling American democratic institutions.
Africa’s democracies have grown stronger during a period in which the world is backsliding on democracy.
When the establishment retains some leverage over reformers change can be slow, superficial, and short-lived. Sudan appears to be a textbook case of this scenario.
History shows that when government elites believe that there is a risk that they may lose control of the capital, they escalate targeted violence against civilians.
The role of the military in toppling authoritarian rulers, after intensive popular protests, raises questions about how the AU’s policy against coups should be applied.
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Research Affiliate and Senior Analyst, University of Central Florida
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Professor Emeritus of Politics, London Metropolitan University
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Extraordinary Lecturer, University of Pretoria
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Director & SARChI Research Chair: Political Economy of Migration in the SADC Region, University of Pretoria
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Research associate, Curtin University
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Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Research Fellow, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Professor of International Law, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Political Science, Nipissing University
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Associate professor, Human Rights Studies, King's University College, Western University
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Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Political Science and Director of LAPOP, Vanderbilt University
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Professor and Senior research fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
