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Civilian support for military coups isn’t a bug – it’s a feature

By Salah Ben Hammou, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Rice University

In the popular imagination, coups d'etat are strictly military-led, palace conspiracies. In reality, a majority of them have required civilian participation.

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