The Democratic Coup d'État advances a simple, yet controversial, argument: democracy sometimes comes through a military coup. Covering coups that toppled dicta

In this lively and provocative book, Erica De Bruin looks at the threats that rulers face from their own armed forces. Can they make their regimes impervious to

The concern of this book is with military rulers as political actors in contemporary Africa. Much of Africa has been under military rule during the quarter cent