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Zusatztext Varol draws on a wide range of examples to provide a nuanced account of how military interventions in politics can sometimes promote democracy-and why they often do not. Informationen zum Autor Ozan Varol is a rocket scientist turned award-winning law professor and author. He was born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey, and came to the United States to attend Cornell University, where he served on the operations team for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers mission. Varol received his law degree from the University of Iowa College of Law, where he graduated first in his class. He is currently a tenured law professor at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon. Klappentext The Democratic Coup d'¿at advances a simple, yet controversial, argument: democracy sometimes comes through a military coup. Covering coups that toppled dictators and installed democratic rule in countries as diverse as Guinea-Bissau, Portugal, and Colombia, the book weaves a balanced narrative that challenges everything we knew about military coups. Zusammenfassung The term coup d'état--French for stroke of the state--brings to mind coups staged by power-hungry generals who overthrow the existing regime, not to democratize, but to concentrate power in their own hands as dictators. We assume all coups look the same, smell the same, and present the same threats to democracy.It's a powerful, concise, and self-reinforcing idea. It's also wrong. In The Democratic Coup d'État, Ozan Varol advances a simple, yet controversial, argument: Sometimes, a democracy is established through a military coup. Covering events from the Athenian Navy's stance in 411 B.C. against a tyrannical home government, to coups in the American colonies that ousted corrupt British governors, to twentieth-century coups that toppled dictators and established democracy in countries as diverse as Guinea-Bissau, Portugal, and Colombia, the book takes the reader on a gripping journey.Connecting the dots between these neglected events, Varol weaves a balanced narrative that challenges everything we thought we knew about military coups. In so doing, he tackles several baffling questions: How can an event as undemocratic as a military coup lead to democracy? Why would imposing generals-armed with tanks and guns and all-voluntarily surrender power to civilian politicians? What distinguishes militaries that help build democracies from those that destroy them?Varol's arguments made headlines across the globe in major media outlets and were cited critically in a public speech by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.Written for a general audience, this book will entertain, challenge, and provoke, but more importantly, serve as a reminder of the imperative to question the standard narratives about our world and engage with all ideas, no matter how controversial. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I : FROM SOLDIERS TO POLITICIANS 1. Love Ballads, Carnations, and Coups 2. The Romance of Democratic Transitions 3. In the Land of the Blind 4. Hogan's Heroes 5. A Different Type of Stroke PART II : BRUTUS AND CASSIUS 6. Friends with Benefits 7. With Friends Like These 8. Musical Chairs 9. The Glorious Coup PART III: PRAETORIANS AND GUARDIANS 10. An Army of Civilians 11. Meritocracy and Nepotism 12. The Enemy Within 13. Foreign Affairs PART IV: AN ALLIANCE OF CONVENIENCE 14. Competition and Power 15. Freedom and Order PART V: MEET THE NEW BOSS, SAME AS THE OLD BOSS 16. A New Order 17. Golden Parachutes 18. Between Scylla and Charybdis PART VI: SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO? 19. The Retreat 20. The Broken Promise PART VII: HOW THIS ENDS 21. The Awakening 22. Hollow Hope 23. Horror Vacui 24. Synergy 25. Cincinnatus Acknowledgments ...
