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Coup d'État
A Practical Handbook, Revised Edition
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English
Published/Copyright:
2016
About this book
Edward Luttwak’s shocking 1968 handbook showed, step-by-step, how governments could be overthrown and inspired anti-coup precautions around the world. In addition to these instructions, his revised handbook offers a new way of looking at political power—one that considers the vulnerability of stable democracies after prolonged economic distress.
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Luttwak Edward N. :
Edward N. Luttwak serves or has served as a contractor for the Office of Net Assessment of the U.S. Department of Defense and for the U.S. armed forces, and as a consultant to the U.S. National Security Council, the White House Chief of Staff, and several allied governments.
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Additions bringing this work into the twenty-first century include Luttwak’s observations about how coup plotters in the age of the internet must now take control of more than the central television station to control public propaganda… It offers as much wisdom on the counter-coup as on the coup itself… It remains in print more than forty years after it was written and still commands sales. The reason may be that it is a good read: wry, observant and practical.
-- Charles Glass Times Literary Supplement
-- Charles Glass Times Literary Supplement
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Figures
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List of Tables
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Acknowledgment
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Preface to the 2016 Edition
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Preface to the First Edition
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Foreword by Walter Laqueur (1978)
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1. What Is the Coup d’État?
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2. When Is a Coup d’État Possible?
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3. The Strategy of the Coup d’État
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4. The Planning of the Coup d’État
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5. The Execution of the Coup d’État
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Appendix A. The Economics of Repression
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Appendix B. Tactical Aspects of the Coup d’État
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Appendix C. Statistics
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Index
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eBook published on:
April 11, 2016
eBook ISBN:
9780674969674
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
270
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19 line illustrations, 23 tables
eBook ISBN:
9780674969674
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