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1 online resource : color map |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Pictures; POLITICAL MAP OF AFRICA; Chapter 1. Introduction; Coup in the then Republic of Transkei; Meaning of coup d'état; Armed rebellion as old as history; Monarchy, early target of coups; Farcical incompetence in some coup attempts; Coup, shortcut to political power; COUP and NON-COUP AFRICAN COUNTRIES; Chapter 2. The Military, a Frankenstein Monster; The military, regime security and national security; Contested subordination of the military to civilian control; Strategies for asserting control over the military |
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Joint civil-military rulershipChapter 3. Why Overthrow a Government; Practical considerations; Theoretical bases; Coups typologies; Chapter 4. How to Stage a Coup; Prior agreement on salient matters; Strategic control of the capital; emergency measures; Judges and civil servants; Coup by the executive; Chapter 5. Coups and the International Community; Attitude of international organizations generally; Attitude of Western countries generally; Attitude of the African Union specifically; Chapter 6. Grundnorm and Revolutionary Legality; Grundnorm and the hierarchy of norms |
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Grudnorm and coup d'étatHierarchy of norms and revolutionary destruction of the grundnorm; Further explication of the meaning of grundnorm; Possibility of legal void following a coup; Authority and legitimacy of the usurper government; International law and recognition of the usurper government; National constitution and military coup; Chapter 7. Usurper Government: its Legitimacy and the Validity of its Acts; Judges and the overthrow of government; Legitimacy of the usurper government; De jure status of the usurper regime: the doctrine of effectiveness |
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De facto status of the usurper regime: the doctrine salus populi suprema lexChapter 8. Facing the Coup Challenge in Africa; What to do about coups; What to do with Africa's military; What to do with Africa's despotic executives; Coup counter-measures; Case for coups; Case against coups; Chapter 9. Countries where there has been no Military Rule (Yet); Where no coup has been attempted; Where a coup or an insurgency attempt failed; Chapter 10. Countries where there has been one coup (so far); Cape Verde; Côte d'Ivoire; Egypt; Equatorial Guinea; Gambia; Libya; Seychelles; Togo; Tunisia |
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Chapter 11. Countries where there has been more than one coupAlgeria; Benin; Burkina Faso; Burundi; Central African Republic; Chad; Comoros; Republic of the Congo; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Ethiopia; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Lesotho; Liberia; Madagascar; Mali; Mauritania; Niger; Nigeria; Rwanda; São Tomé and Príncipe; Sierra Leone; Somalia; South African Homelands (apartheid era); Sudan; Uganda; Chapter 12. Epilogue: Neo-patrimonial Governance andRevolutionary Overthrow of Governments in Africa; The rise of the neo-patrimonial state in Africa |
| Summary |
The subject of revolutionary overthrow of constitutional orders in Africa is at the intersection of three disciplines: jurisprudence and legal philosophy, constitutional law and power politics, and civil-military relations, that is, military security policy which is one aspect of national security policy. The subject is of interest in at least four ways. It problematizes the inescapable question of governance in the African continent. It challenges the democratization agenda in Africa ñ how does one democratize not only political governance but also the instruments of violence in the state? It |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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Coups d'état -- Africa
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Civil-military relations -- Africa
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Constitutional law -- Africa
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Civil-military relations
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Constitutional law
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Coups d'état
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Africa
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789956727575 |
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9956727571 |
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9789956727551 |
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9956727555 |
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