Political Instability and Military Coups
Investigating why many democratic experiments failed in newly independent states.
Key Questions
- 1Why did the military often emerge as the most powerful institution in post-colonial states?
- 2To what extent was political instability a legacy of colonial "divide and rule" policies?
- 3How did the Cold War contribute to the rise of authoritarianism?
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