Essays about: "military coup"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 30 essays containing the words military coup.

  1. 1. The West African Coup Trap : A qualitative case study of military coups d'état in Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, and Guinea

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

    Author : Joy Hansen; [2024]
    Keywords : Coup d état; Mali; Niger; Burkina Faso; Guinea; External impact; Climate change; Political instability; France; Russia;

    Abstract : Africa is the continent having the most coups d'état. From 2020 to 2022, there were six coups and three coup attempts on the continent. This study aims to investigate the causes of these coups d'état in Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Guinea, four former French colonies in West Africa. READ MORE

  3. 2. Galli Non Grata in Mali? Explaining why France left Mali in August 2022

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : Julyan Paillard Borg; [2024]
    Keywords : Sahel; Mali; France; Russia; Operation Barkhane; Task Force Takuba; Coup d’État; transition; jihadist; civil-military relations.;

    Abstract : Based on the understanding that Mali and Russia will be unable to contain the jihadist security threat in Mali, this paper explains why France withdrew from Mali in 2022 and why the latter intensified its cooperation with Russia. Existing literature points to operational obstacles and grievances directed towards France’s presence in Mali, however, it falls short of explaining whether these are explanatory for France’s withdrawal, or why France wouldn’t have left earlier considering these hurdles. READ MORE

  4. 3. Digging up memory : suppressed objects during the dictatorship in Chile 1973–1990

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Marcela Vera Oliva; [2023]
    Keywords : Materiality; agency; memory; counter-memory; Chile; dictatorship; Materialitet; agency; minne; counter-memory; Chile; diktatur;

    Abstract : This work deals with objects suppressed by individual people after the 1973 coup in Chile, due to the repression exerted by the installed civic-military dictatorship. It collects the memories of those who had to get rid of compromising objects to save their lives, pointing out the strategies chosen for this purpose, as well as the places to carry them out. READ MORE

  5. 4. Concordance and the risk of military intervention in post-military states : A comparative case study of Indonesia and Myanmar

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Elvira Svenheim Paldanius; [2023]
    Keywords : civil-military relations; military coup; civilian control; concordance theory; Southeast Asia; Myanmar; Indonesia;

    Abstract : The 2021 military coup in Myanmar is part of a much bigger trend towards democratic regression in Southeast Asia where military influence has played an important role. Previous research on the SEA region suggests that the citizenry has been overlooked in understanding how civil-military relations have been shaped. Rebecca L. READ MORE

  6. 5. ”We used to be brothers. What has happened to us?" : A qualitative case study on civilian opposition to international peacebuilding in Mali.

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationer

    Author : Regina Weckström Breidenstein; [2023]
    Keywords : International Peacebuilding; Civilian Opposition; Mali; Liberal Peace; MINUSMA; Civil War; United Nations; Hybrid Peace; Top-down Peacebuilding; Bottom-up Peacebuilding.;

    Abstract : Abstract The international UN-led peacebuilding mission MINUSMA has been deployed in Mali since 2013 and was initially rather successful. The mission managed to support the government with stabilization and a peace agreement that ended the conflict between the north and the south. READ MORE