Coups and Conflict in West Africa, 1955-2004
@article{McGowan2005CoupsAC, title={Coups and Conflict in West Africa, 1955-2004}, author={P. McGowan}, journal={Armed Forces & Society}, year={2005}, volume={32}, pages={23 - 5} }
From independence through 2004, the sixteen West African states have experienced forty-four successful military-led coups, forty-three often-bloody failed coups, at least eighty-two coup plots, seven civil wars, and many other forms of political conflict. This two-part article seeks answers to the question, what has gone wrong inWest Africa? Part I uses world-systems and rational-choice analyses to provide theoretical answers involving macro structures and micro leadership behavior. Structural… CONTINUE READING
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