"Before the next National Congress of the Communist Party of China, due in November 2022, President Xi Jinping will be removed from office by a coup d'état mounted by rivals in the top leadership who will end the tyranny of the one-party dictatorship and launch a transition to d…
The thesis attempts to account for the social and political conditionswhich precipitated the military coup d'etat in 1967 in Greece.Part I focuses on the Hellenic Armed Forces as a power centre in theGreek political system erected on the ruins of the civil war (1946 - 1949 ).The…
This dissertation explores how Pentecostal Christians in the small town of Copán Ruinas, Honduras strive to remake both individual subjectivities and the national body as part of a drive towards development and modernization. In the process, these Spirit-filled Christians, which…
When do states experience coup d’états? Previous studies of military intervention have analyzed various social conditions that have been assessed as determinants of coup behavior. Relationships between select social conditions and coup behavior are often determined by how a vari…
Two geopolitically important and petroleum-rich countries are Iran and Venezuela. The modern history of these two countries has been greatly influenced by the fact that both countries lie on top of large petroleum reserves. Each country experienced political coups d'état that we…