The Ethnic Army and the State
@article{Harkness2016TheEA, title={The Ethnic Army and the State}, author={K. Harkness}, journal={Journal of Conflict Resolution}, year={2016}, volume={60}, pages={587 - 616} }
Military coups have posed a persistent threat to political stability in Africa, undermining democratization efforts, igniting insurgencies, and leading to years of devastating military governance. Initial cross-national studies found little consistent evidence linking ethnicity to coups, leading recent formal and statistical work on coup risk and coup-proofing to largely ignore ethnic politics. This article, however, argues that in two important contexts of African political development… CONTINUE READING
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