They were overthrown in coups in 2006 and 2014 coups.
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A few famous modern espionage coups do still register as coups.
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In that time, the country has seen nine coups or attempted coups.
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Coups in Thailand are among the most likely to succeed, with 10 of the 16 attempted coups or coup plots succeeding (not counting questionable alleged coups).
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The former Portuguese colony has seen nine coups or attempted coups since 1980.
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For all of Fox News and President Trump's daily declaration of coups and attempted coups against the administration, American history has actually been shockingly free of actual coups.
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Guinea Bissau has seen nine coups or attempted coups since independence from Portugal in 1974.
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The former Portuguese colony is notoriously unstable, having experienced nine coups or attempted coups since 1980.
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The former Portuguese colony is notoriously unstable and has seen nine coups or attempted coups since 1980.
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J'entendais des coups de feu, j'ai compris que c'était des coups de feu et non pas des pétards.
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It was a bold statement for the leader of a country that has seen many coups and attempted coups.
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Bolivia has managed to suppress 14 coups, behind only Iraq and Sudan, which have each avoided 20 out of 24 coups.
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This was a period of constantly shifting power, of coups and counter-coups, of Soviet occupation, American meddling, and civil war.
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So did high-ranking officials from the military, which has launched nine coups or attempted coups since independence from Portugal in 1974.
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Though most coups lead to new authoritarian regimes, over the past decade, academics have examined what makes military coups occasionally propitious for democracy.
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But coups against autocrats have become less frequent for a reason: Governments today have better ways of detecting and thus thwarting potential coups.
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Today, there are still about six coups every year, or eight counting alleged coups reported by regimes that researchers say may not have actually happened.
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His long reign, coming after the coups and counter-coups of the 1970s, brought his country a measure of stability, that familiar lipstick of tyrants.
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The unengaging Mr Rabuka, another former military man who set off Fiji's cycle of coups and counter-coups in 1987, will not hector Mr Bainimarama about that.
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The former Portuguese colony has seen nine coups or attempted coups since 1980 and become a major transit point for cocaine trafficked from South America to Europe.
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As a candidate, Embalo vowed to modernize the country of 1.6 million people, which has suffered nine coups or attempted coups since independence from Portugal in 1974.
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Whatever the result, the vote represents a milestone of sorts for Guinea Bissau, which has suffered nine coups or attempted coups since independence from Portugal in 1974.
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It has seen nine coups or attempted coups since 1980 and instability has helped it become a major transit point for cocaine trafficked from South America to Europe.
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But coup plots are far less likely to lead to attempted coups, and attempted coups are far less likely to be successful than they were a few years ago.
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The 20th and 21st centuries have seen a number of coups, and particularly military coups, in many African countries, as well as Turkey, Thailand, Pakistan, and in South America.
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It has had nine coups or attempted coups since 1980, and the turbulence has helped it become a major transit point for cocaine trafficked from South America to Europe.
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Years of political turbulence, including nine coups or attempted coups since independence from Portugal in 1974, have hurt the economy, which depends heavily on volatile prices for cashew nuts.
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It might seem an inaccurate expression to those who forget that the best coups are those without any violence, precisely because they don't seem to be coups at all.
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Guinea-Bissau has witnessed nine coups or attempted coups since independence from Portugal in 1974, most recently in 2012 when an election was abandoned after soldiers stormed the presidential palace.
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Successful coups tend to be waged as "coordination games," Naunihal Singh, a professor at the Air War College, wrote in the book "Seizing Power," which examines why coups succeed or fail.
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These "gentler coups d'états," as Human Rights Watch calls them, are intended to avoid running afoul of the African Union, which will not recognize leaders who seize power through military coups.
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Barón Biza draws poignant parallels between Aron's flamboyant machismo and the strongman ethos that ruled Argentina in the decades during which the novel takes place, a time of coups and counter-coups.
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"Most coups are just changes of autocratic leadership," Marshall said.
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PERPETRATORS OF COUPS tend to do badly at the polls.
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Most Turks thought they had consigned military coups to history.
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Their governments were overthrown in 2014 and 2006 coups respectively.
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Madagascar has suffered several coups and bouts of violent instability.
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What's more, since the 2870s, coups have become increasingly infrequent.
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Military coups and other violent seizures of power are rare.
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Impeachments (and certainly coups) generally send economies into a tailspin.
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To do so, it needs to pull off two coups.
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The country has seen five coups and numerous armed revolts.
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The same can be said for coups around the world.
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Read on to learn about military coups around the world.
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The region was also militarized by frequent coups and juntas.
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Thailand has had 12 successful military coups since the 1930s.
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The BJP has pulled off similar midnight constitutional coups before.
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The kingdom of Thailand has a long history of coups.
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Azerbaijan, we were in there through several changes and coups.
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Au départ, j'ai entendu et senti les coups de feu.
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He may have been helped by the fact that his main opponent was another former coup leader and army commander, Sitiveni Rabuka, who started Fiji's cycle of coups and counter-coups back in 1987.
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Democracy has been wobbly in Guinea Bissau, which has not seen a democratically elected leader serve a full term since independence from Portugal in 1974, and has suffered nine coups or attempted coups since 1980.
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The Thai royal succession has prompted worries about instability in a country that has witnessed 19 coups or attempted coups and at least 19 constitutions since a constitutional monarchy replaced an absolute one in 1932.
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From 1980 to 20143 there were 38 successful coups in Africa.
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Experts on coups note the event appeared poorly planned and executed.
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Denouncing supposed coups has become part of the left's propaganda kit.
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Global norms, once tolerant of coups, now treat them as taboo.
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Pakistan has experienced several military coups since its founding in 1947.
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Turkey has also dealt with several military coups throughout the years.
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Hungry people rarely topple dictatorships — well-organized coups or insurgencies do.
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"Constitutional coups like this occur and are completely legal," wrote Gudkov.
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Since independence in 1960, Gabon has avoided civil war and coups.
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The days of coups and military juntas seemed to be over.
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The Turkish Republic in every period has been faced with coups.
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What followed was 30 years of ousted leaders, coups and US intervention.
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Governments replaced one another through a lengthy sequence of mainly nonviolent coups.
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Rumours of coups may be false, but say much about the mood.
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Depressing cycles of elections, protests, coups and military regimes dominate Thai politics.
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"I have always been against coups, and I cursed them," he said.
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But despite these high-profile examples, coups are in fact increasingly rare.
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That doesn't necessarily jump out from the supermodel's list of fashion coups.
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Those who cry wolf about coups take a selective view of democracy.
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Since March seven politicians have been arrested for allegedly plotting various coups.
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Thailand has had a staggering number of military coups over the years.
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His youth in Argentina was punctuated by coups that divided his family.
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The sale to Phibro also spawned another Wall Street staple: boardroom coups.
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Among his early coups were signing Bruce Lee — and discovering Angela Mao.
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Jim Crow segregationists employed voter suppression, violence and coups to maintain power.
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Turks know their coups; many had lived through four of them already.
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It has suffered repeated bouts of instability since it became independent from Portugal in 1974, including nine coups or attempted coups and a surge in cocaine trafficking from South America that has been linked to senior military officials.
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Both candidates say that if elected they will work to overcome a long-running political impasse and modernize the country of 1.6 million people, which has suffered nine coups or attempted coups since independence from Portugal in 1974.
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Thailand has a poor way of dealing with unruly politicians: it uses coups.
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Egypt's security forces, no stranger to coups, are thought to have offered advice.
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Out of those, only five involved coups or other sudden collapses into authoritarianism.
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"People power in the streets, military coups, negotiated settlements, they interact," he said.
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The former French colony has been battered by decades of coups and instability.
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Coups depend on as rapid a seizure and transition of power as possible.
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Fortunately, the days when they triggered real coups in Latin America are past.
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Since Déby took power, his forces have put down numerous rebellions and coups.
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Raising it by one percentage point reduces the probability of coups by 4.4%.
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Since the democratisation of the region in the 1980s, coups have been rare.
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Mr. Erdogan will have averted all the coups and won all the wars.
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Confusion Trump's move shared characteristics with many of his previous executive power coups.
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Burkina Faso has experienced military coups and frequent droughts, according to the BBC.
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Coups, fires, and civil wars later reduced the building to a roofless shambles.
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On entend des coups de feu, ils essayent d'atteindre les gens qui sortent.
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Matteen Mokalla: Coups have happened a number of times in Turkey's modern history.
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He witnessed a dozen successful military coups and several attempted uprisings, and in his last years, his health failing, he appeared powerless to stem sometimes violent demonstrations, offering only vague appeals for unity and giving royal endorsement to two coups.
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Anything less would mark a sad relapse to the era of serial coups and counter-coups that ravaged Bolivia, often with the clandestine participation of the C.I.A. A continued standoff would only exacerbate the country's deep ethnic and ideological polarization.
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The reason for the coups—trouble—is also a trend, federally and for universities.
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Venezuela's opposition, which scoffs at Maduro's accusations of coups-mongering, quickly condemned the measure.
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Successful coups, however, do have a real impact—but only in previously democratic countries.
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Coups are also associated with a range of other economic pathologies, particularly in democracies.
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The army has long defended its coups by claiming to have the king's support.
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And political scientists who study coups say Turkey should have been at little risk.
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Coups are usually driven not solely by individual plotters, but also by structural factors.
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Dozens of countries saw assassinations, coups, revolts, bombings, political kidnappings and wars of liberation.
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We tend to think of coups as driven by angry protesters or rogue officers.
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The ruling al-Thani family was riven by vicious internecine squabbles and periodic coups.
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Yet none of them have had classic military coups, with tanks in the street.
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The author's multiple coups de foudre may be as noteworthy as her written output.
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The junta has said the constitution is aimed at ending a cycle of coups.
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"Chile will not support coups or military interventions," Ms. Bachelet said pointedly on Wednesday.
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In a country used to coups and presidential turnover, democracy seemed to have won.
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In other cases, like Niger, Honduras and Burkina Faso, dictators were ousted by coups.
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OT: Because in past coups, the military acted with unity and chain of command.
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Since the French, it has undergone a series of revolutions, coups, and border shifts.
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Each of their governments has been removed by court rulings or coups since 2006.
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The governments led by the Shinawatras were booted out in coups in 2006 and 2014.
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Coups are not organised to provide an alibi, but to ensure there is no alibi.
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A half-century of socialism, military coups, and isolationism will do that to a country.
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Yet even by recent standards, this spill, as the leadership coups are known, looks messy.
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The military historically plays a big role in Turkish politics and coups are relatively frequent.
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The past 150 years have been witness to military incursions, assassinations, regime change, coups, etc.
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Turkey's military has staged a number of coups or interventions in politics in the past.
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Volatile Venezuela's history of coups mean rumors always abound on its buzzing social media scene.
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The leader of one of those Nigerian coups, Muhammadu Buhari, is now Nigeria's president again.
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He is an academic and the author of Seizing Power, a groundbreaking book on coups.
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Although the coup attempt was unexpected, military coups are not entirely strange affairs to Turkey.
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In countries with autocratic rulers, in contrast, coups make little difference in the long run.
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There is reckless talk by Republicans about 'secret societies,' 'silent coups' and 'the deep state.
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Nigeria and Pakistan, two major contributors, both face international security challenges and have experienced coups.
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He then emphasized that he wasn't in favor of military coups or non-democratic governance.
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"In the past, coups were carried out with machine guns, tanks and weapons," she said.
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Military coups or revolutions in US partners always bring these tensions out into the open.
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The military has ruled for about half the country's history through a series of coups.
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The Labor experience should have discouraged the conservatives from indulging in back-to-back coups.
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But judicial actions and a pair of army coups have unseated each of these governments.
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U.S. government-financed organizations helped spur coups in Venezuela in 6900 and Haiti in 2628.
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For Pakistan, after so many coups and assassinations, persuading everyone of this would take time.
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"Junior officer coups tend to be bloody, erratic and the success rates are lower," she said.
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But we're not just talking about her coups in maternity wear and award show get-ups.
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It endured a series of coups before a military dictator, Jerry Rawlings, took power in 1981.
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In former coups, the population was cowed into accepting, or willingly went along with, martial law.
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In Montenegro and Macedonia, coups brought to power pro-Russian governments—which promptly pulled out, too.
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He cultivated an image of being above coups and protests while intervening in times of crisis.
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Information without context isn't that helpful, especially if you aren't an expert on coups or Turkey.
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Democracies fall in coups and revolutions, burn in fires and riots, collapse amid war and plague.
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Successive attempts at protracted democracy have been interrupted by military coups, the last one in 1999.
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Aspirations of cold-blooded international coups are squelched by a couple hours in Call of Duty.
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These efforts, generally covert, have sought to orchestrate military coups or bolster particular parties in elections.
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They produced publishing coups, donations, diplomatic reconciliations and sometimes, where his many paramours were concerned, scandal.
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Between 1966 and 1993 Nigeria was ruled almost entirely by military leaders and suffered six coups.
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The churning of Thailand's grim cycle of elections, protests and coups will subside for a while.
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The interpreter The Cold War binary of "bad" coups and "good" popular revolts no longer applies.
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This propaganda was useful in garnering public support during Turkey's 1960, 1971 and 1980 military coups.
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During the Cold War, coups d'etat accounted for nearly three out of every four democratic breakdowns.
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But many lawyers question whether their actions amounted to "rebellion", a crime aimed at military coups.
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The generals needed him to give legitimacy to their coups and so built up the monarchy.
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Generations have perished in prisons and torture chambers as Turkey has gone through successive military coups.
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DEMOCRACIES ARE generally thought to die at the barrel of a gun, in coups and revolutions.
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During his reign the country had 30 prime ministers, 10 successful military coups and 17 constitutions.
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Bolivia, for example, experienced 13 coups, more than one every five years, between 1920 and 1980.
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He also needs princes as provincial governors and spread through the military to counter potential coups.
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But do we really want "tactics" and "PR coups" when it comes to formulating public policy?
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Dozens of Venezuelan military officers have been detained in recent months on suspicion of plotting coups.
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And the United States has a long history of encouraging or conducting coups in Latin America.
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Maduro frequently accuses the opposition, Colombia and the United States of backing coups or assassination attempts.
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Embalo, who served as prime minister under Vaz from 2016-18, faces the difficult task of overcoming a long-running political impasse and modernising the West African country of 1.6 million people, which has suffered nine coups or attempted coups since independence from Portugal in 1974.
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Still, Turkey is no stranger to coups, with the military seizing power in 1960, 1971 and 1980.
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In other cases, though, the AU's policy has undoubtedly deterred some coups, and helped to foil others.
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Coups usually entail the violent overthrow of a government or a trampling of constitutional rules and procedures.
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Former prime minister Sitiveni Rabuka, who himself led two coups in 1987, is the main opposition candidate.
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But it is axiomatic that so long as an economy is thriving, coups are far less likely.
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This may have been a key factor behind the army coups against Mr Thaksin and his sister.
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Their constant invocation of coups tends to be a smokescreen for their own flouting of the rules.
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Military coups toppled Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi in 2013 and Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra in 2014.
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Military coups are "business as usual" in Thailand, Eugenie Merieu wrote in The Atlantic earlier this year.
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I'm very afraid because in the past a lot of innocent blood was shed in these coups.
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In the old days, autocrats often came to or retained power through military coups and violent crackdowns.
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And during the Cold War, Washington sowed resentment in Latin America by supporting several right-wing coups.
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For decades, countries in sub-Saharan Africa changed governments through coups that left military juntas in charge.
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And even when they do occur, coups against autocrats for the most part do not deliver democracy.
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They have fueled wild speculation and outright paranoia, talks of coups and deep states and secret societies.
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After all, Nigeria's turbulent modern history of coups and civil wars is barely taught in the country's schools.
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Some venture capitalists are worried about emerging market risks, such as fluctuating currencies, military coups, disease and corruption.
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Gordon's new memoir, "They Call Me Supermensch," explores some of the other crazy PR coups in music history.
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If Shorten wins, he'll be Australia's sixth leader in a decade marred by party infighting and leadership coups.
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Thai politics has been unstable for the past decade, bedevilled by popular protests and upended by two coups.
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After all, look at everything we have survived, from famines to cyclones to floods to coups to wars.
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In the 70 years since partition, Pakistan has been torn by war, terrorism, coups, instability and religious extremism.
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Coups have become rarer across Africa—a sign that basic democratic norms are more widespread than they were.
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Again, clause four's authors were not specific about what might legitimately trigger it, and they worried about coups.
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Rock has the hacking skills, but he needed to find an expert on overthrowing governments and stagings coups.
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Analysts counted 18 attempted coups around the world in 1966 and none at all in 2007 or 2018.
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The kingdom has seen 19 coups d'etats – including 12 successful ones – since absolute monarchy was abolished in 1932.
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In general, armies everywhere have proven better at staging coups than at managing genuine transitions to civilian rule.
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The junta has argued the measure is necessary to prevent coups in a transition period after the election.
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In Latin America alone 16 countries suffered coups or takeovers by strongmen within a few years of 1929.
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But the Cold War-era language of coups and revolutions demands that such cases fit into clear narratives.
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In authoritarian countries, with no mechanism for transferring power, coups are part of the natural order of things.
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But Thailand has seen two coups and several governments in the past decade and political divisions are deep.
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But it also means that the Democratic establishment, such as it is, is resilient against Trump-style coups.
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The death penalty is currently used for crimes including murder, coups and arson or rape that causes death.
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From the 1960s to the 1990s, after the first wave of decolonization, military coups were rife in Africa.
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"We do not want to return to the 2160th century of gringo interventions and coups d'état," Maduro added.
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The deepwater study is one of archaeology's greatest coups: Imagine what treasures may still be found below decks.
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China may be new to coups, but it's one of the oldest players in the global money game.
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This is not about what coups were happening in the 21960s or 24s, this is about the future.
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He came of age amid the political ferment of the 13s, as Arab kings fell to army coups.
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It was behind at least four coups, and it surveilled and murdered reporters, dissidents, Communists, Kurds, and Islamists.
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"It's a process of escalation that often begins with minor stuff and ends with coups," Mr. Levitsky said.
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But despite its advantageous position and history of coups, the military isn't expected to take power anytime soon.
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But it exposes an uncomfortable truth: the line between coups and revolutions is often a matter of perception.
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Having carried out coups firsthand during the tumultuous post-Diem interregnum, Thieu's sensitivity was perhaps to be expected.
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Pheu Thai is the latest incarnation of a populist force that was toppled in the last two coups.
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"The YSK's decision amounts to a civilian coup which surpasses the days of the uniformed coups," she said.
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Two different groups of people who had attempted coups had been arrested, the Transitional Military Council's spokesman said.
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But the twilight years of his reign were marred by political conflict -- the military coups of 2006 and 2014.
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Military coups have punctuated Pakistan's 71-year history, and Khan's election was only the second democratic transfer of power.
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If successful, it would mark Congo's first democratic transition after decades marked by authoritarian rule, coups and civil war.
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In particular, esteem for the monarchy has made it easier for Thailand's meddlesome army to excuse its frequent coups.
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The symbolic authority of the former has legitimised the political authority of the latter, providing cover for numerous coups.
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Decrying "imperialism" still resonates for many in a region scarred by Washington's support of coups during the Cold War.
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And one of the most common excuses for mounting such coups is that the incumbent trails in the polls.
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Military coups against left-wing governments in the 1970s were backed by a middle class fearful of socioeconomic disorder.
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Much like after the coups of the past, people are voting with their feet and choosing to leave Turkey.
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Ghana has been heading in this direction since the 1990s, after years of military coups, dictatorships and economic distress.
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A history of military coups has kept the focus of Thailand's policymakers on political stability rather than foreign investment.
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But coups in Bangladesh brought to power a series of military regimes, which invoked Islam to broaden their support.
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There are many possible explanations for the decline in coups, but one is economic: the world has become richer.
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Thailand has seen a dozen successful coups since the 1930s and a new constitution on average every four years.
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Other coups followed, including that of General Augusto Pinochet against Salvador Allende, a radical socialist, in Chile in 1973.
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Turkey's politics are notoriously polarized, and its history of coups remains branded in the memories of its older generations.
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Coups work, according to this theory, when leaders convince other officers and soldiers that their success is already assured.
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By 1874, these insurgents were openly staging coups against state and local governments in order to suppress black progress.
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The country often imposes media blackouts after big news involving national security, such as terrorist attacks and political coups.
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A year ago, people on message boards and social media discussing coups and revolutions were something of a joke.
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As a result, the Thai generals' habit of subverting electoral politics through coups never elicited too much international criticism.
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A historic lull in coups and revolutions appears to be ending, making these dynamics increasingly consequential well beyond Venezuela.
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"These documents remind us of the ugly reality of the military coups and the regimes that followed," he said.
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Turkey's recent history has been filled with military coups, and the Islamists chafed more than others under military rule.
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No region in the world has a similar record of coups, revolutions and regime change caused by social instability.
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I had, during my life, to face two coups: one by the military and the other by the Congress.
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The junta dismissed suggestions that it should also sign any reconciliation agreement and agree not to stage more coups.
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Coups against elected governments — even populist ones with authoritarian tendencies — almost always push countries in a less democratic direction.
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Thanks to FOIA, Americans began to learn details of CIA-backed coups in Latin America and the Middle East.
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The MGB would also be a powerful tool to control them and head off any political coups or conspiracies.
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The nation's generals have staged more than a dozen successful coups, and the country has churned through 20 constitutions.
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The sudden coup d'etat attempt in Turkey was shocking partially because coups are less frequent than they used to be.
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Only about a third of plots and 40 percent of attempted coups end up being successful, according to the data.
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A decade of assiduous pampering of police and army officers has bought loyalty, and put paid to fears of coups.
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We also look more widely at coups around the world, why they succeed or fail, and how to predict them.
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One obstacle to building a good coup-predicting model is that coups are extremely rare and becoming even more so.
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And so there are reasons why some poets talk about transgression and breakage, or coupure, blows (Le quatre cents coups).
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The election should herald Congo's first democratic transition of power following decades marked by authoritarian rule, coups and deadly conflict.
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He was arrested in connection with one of the coups d'état and imprisoned for years, until he managed to escape.
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Rabuka was involved in two previous coups in 1987 and went on to become prime minister between 1992 and 1999.
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HAVING launched more than a dozen coups in the past 80 years, Thailand's generals have not been friends of democracy.
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Coups, chaos or conflict caused democracy to collapse in one nation after another, bringing in military rule or religious strife.
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The past three years have seen successful coups in Egypt and Thailand, along with several botched attempts in other countries.
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Although an apparent 2016 military coup failed against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government, Turkey is no stranger to military coups.
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The sight of a civilian populace wildly cheering soldiers clinging to a tank is the standard fare of coups d'état.
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On a continent that often has been wracked by violent coups d'état, this had been a most unusual military intervention.
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However, it should not be forgotten that coups are treacherous systems that completely eliminate the people's will and devastates democracy.
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Pakistan's military has staged numerous coups and ruled the country for about half is history since its creation in 1947.
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Thailand has experienced a repeated cycle of elections, coups and new Constitutions since the absolute monarchy was abolished in 1932.
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The conflicts between the Al-Thani family and their coups have become an indelible part of their internal political philosophy.
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The military, which has ruled Pakistan through various coups for about half of the country's history, denies any political involvement.
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Mambele was there in 1960 when Belgium suddenly granted independence - triggering a long-term pattern of mutinies, wars and coups.
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This is not only disorientating—all the talk of "coups" and "traitors" can unsettle even the most philosophical of souls.
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The history of interventions, coups and military adventures in Latin America has defined the relationship with the region ever since.
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A former congresswoman and senator as well as president, she has weathered five impeachment efforts and military coups that failed.
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His journalistic coups revealed an uncanny ability to wheedle incriminating remarks from defensive suspects and damning observations from unfriendly witnesses.
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Adults may lay their claim to partisan victories, rocky transitions of power, and even good old fashioned CIA-backed coups.
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The military has declared states of emergency several times in Turkey's history, though usually after actual coups, not failed ones.
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Pakistan has witnessed three coups and has been ruled by the military for close to half its 72-year existence.
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"This is one of the greatest coups we've seen in modern-day America," said the House Democratic leader, Larry Hall.
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Actual coups, meanwhile, involve the telegenic seizure of the presidential palace with tanks, not expert testimony in plodding congressional hearings.
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Puis j'ai entendu des cris qui venaient de derrière moi, plus de coups de feu, et des gens qui criaient.
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These coups were really designed by the military to prevent the democratic process from becoming too chaotic or too violent.
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This politicking led to coups, the attempted secession of what was then known as the Eastern Region and a civil war.
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When front-row coups and the traditional runway format fall flat, what should a label do to reach that elusive consumer?
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Thailand has a history of political instability, having faced 19 military coups—12 successful—since becoming a constitutional monarchy in 1932.
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Seven of its writers have been assassinated since 1978 and some were among those jailed after coups in 1971 and 1980.
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The coronation comes amid an ongoing period of political instability in the country, which has had two coups in 13 years.
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The Bangkok-based establishment seized power in successive coups in 2006 and 2014 and now has its own proxy political parties.
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Since the greatest threat to autocrats was a coup, and most coups started in cities, leaders tried to buy off urbanites.
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In the Mother of Parliaments democracy has blossomed for over 300 years without coups, revolution or civil war, Irish independence aside.
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In a country that has experienced four coups and three coup attempts, most would say this attempt was sloppy and disorganized.
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Yet many lawyers question whether all this amounts to sufficient violence to justify the charge of rebellion, designed for military coups.
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In South Asia, women have historically come into power through dynastic succession, or in the aftermath of assassinations or coups d'etat.
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The country has had several changes in government over the last 15 years due to public protests and two military coups.
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Pro-Thaksin parties had won every election since then but each time saw its governments ousted by legal rulings and coups.
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The two-term rule should be enshrined as a norm by Africa's regional bodies, just as the African Union forbids coups.
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The past three decades suggest that theirs is a country which can endure a crisis without resorting to coups or collapses.
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Popular perceptions of coups, cemented in the Cold War era, still envision tanks on the streets and generals announcing a takeover.
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Today, coups often come after mass uprisings calling for change, with generals describing their interventions as temporary measures to restore democracy.
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Failed coups have little discernible impact on a country's growth; after short-term volatility, it quickly returns to its previous trend.
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Perhaps she had only tried to con men on both sides out of money in return for promises of espionage coups.
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The drug business: Along with coups and Coca-Cola, Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, is another US import to Central America.
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Turkey's military has a history of mounting coups to defend secularism, although the army has not seized power directly since 1980.
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Successful coups will often exploit or even coordinate with pre-existing movements, using this show of popular support to rally elites.
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If war is diplomacy by other means, in these two neighbors and NATO allies, military coups were politics by other means.
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Thousands came for just a chance to be close to a man who helped steer the country through coups and chaos.
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Following the classic playbook of Latin American coups, state security forces brutally repressed pro-democracy demonstrations and shut down independent media.
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Two different groups of people suspected of involvement in the attempted coups had been arrested, the Transitional Military Council's spokesman said.
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This will make it much harder for the army to launch coups without securing the support of the king in advance.
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"Don't trust the gringos," President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela said this week, listing United States-backed military coups in the region.
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As similar coups took place across the continent, modernity's promises of progress and democracy looked to many like a pipe dream.
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In a country riven by coups and political conflict, tourism has succeeded in spite of the government, not because of it. ■
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The country experienced coups or other severe political crises on average every 10 years, along with long periods of extraordinary rule.
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The cleric has publicly denied masterminding the attempted coup, saying "it's not possible," and has said he is always against coups.
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"The same sensation as in the old days of the coups d'état," the prominent journalist Juan Luis Font wrote on Twitter.
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The effort to eradicate Peronism brought nearly three decades of instability, including three more coups and two periods of military dictatorship.
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The Assad regime arose after an unstable period during the 1950s and '60s, when Syria was shaken by coups and countercoups.
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With coups globally out of fashion, the generals could not have been happier to topple Mr. Sharif without rolling the tanks.
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Lesotho has a long history of instability and has seen a number of military coups since independence from Britain in 1966.
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Even if the aftermaths of earlier coups saw greater violence — more torture, more hangings — there was the promise of an end.
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The armed forces have had a history of mounting coups to defend secularism, but have not seized power directly since 1980.
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Just as predictably, the military has launched coups, one against him and one against the government of his sister, Yingluck Shinawatra.
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The park's management plan says WWF will help organize raids, known as "coups de poing," on local villages suspected of harboring poachers.
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Between 1812 and 1975 Spain saw six different constitutions, seven bloodless military coups, four royal abdications, two dictatorships and four civil wars.
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Burkina Faso, which has just experienced back-to-back military coups, deploys roughly a quarter of its army on peacekeeping missions annually.
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Global corporations also latched onto this, dipping their hands in coups and other exploitative activities — something that still happens to this day.
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One exhaustive study recently suggested that failed coups don't have much economic impact, though successful ones against democratic governments do cause harm.
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MORE than 30 years ago, a young general swept to power in the fifth of Nigeria's military coups since independence in 1960.
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A coup attempt in Turkey has precedent: Since the creation of the modern Turkish state, there have been four successful military coups.
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That rattled nerves across Brazil, which endured a 1964-85 military dictatorships and has a long history of coups interrupting democratic regimes.
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Coups are far less common these days; the African Union, often an ineffectual organisation, has recently taken a firm stand against them.
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Mr Meyersson's explanation of why democracies fare so much worse is simple: coups are much more of a wrenching change for them.
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Soon, government supporters began to pressure both groups, using MAS loyalists to stage what some members described as coups within the organizations.
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The government rapidly disintegrated in a series of coups by squabbling generals, and in 1965 America had to send in combat troops.
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He recounted a long history of "gringo interventions and coups" and said that only Venezuelans can elect and remove their government leaders.
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She had fled the thirteen-year-long civil war that tore her country apart, a series of revolts, coups, massacres, and betrayals.
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Reference to American-backed coups serving strongmen in far-flung lands is not the usual Oval Office fare of America-as-beacon.
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Players jockey for control of countries around the world, scoring points based on how much territory they've accumulated through influence and coups.
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There, as in Turkey, a powerful military in a country with a history of coups rebelled against a democratically elected Islamist government.
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" Then you tell them, "Yeah, but when you were growing up in the 1960s, there were about 15 military coups a year.
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Pascrell, for his part, warned that attempted coups would only harm the party at a time when they can least afford it.
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She had special coups in Wagner's "Lohengrin" (1998), Beethoven's "Fidelio" (2000) and, perhaps most notably, as a sensationally sensual Salome in 2004.
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But activists and politicians say the courts are influenced by the military, which has undertaken numerous coups in the country's modern history.
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The most valuable and highly coveted natural resource, it has also been a trigger for colonial and imperial endeavors, wars, and coups.
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He asked the international community to cut off aid to Fujimori and noted (correctly) that Latin American militaries often favor coups d'état.
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This island nation off Africa's southeast coast has experienced several violent coups and political instability, according to its profile on the BBC.
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Yet one might think, in 2018, that the widespread outrage at those attempted Midwestern coups would deter Democrats from playing such games.
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They're full of blinding coups de théâtre — but replete, too, with playful minutiae you might see only on your fifth time around.
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The frequent upheavals, experts said, have left foreign allies uncertain and voters angry when elected leaders are ousted in back-room coups.
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In Nigeria, the independence from the British in 1960 was quickly followed by back-to-back military coups and a civil war.
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Mr. El Aissami also heads a newly formed "commando" unit, meant to root out dissidents that the government accuses of plotting coups.
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Thailand, which has weathered 12 successful coups since absolute monarchy was abolished in 1932, has been politically polarized for over 15 years.
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Within three months, the generals who toppled Diem were themselves deposed, ushering in a period of cascading military coups and religious violence.
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Both men were young and ambitious, and both were shrewd navigators of the internecine schemes and coups plaguing South Vietnam's ruling military.
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In Pakistan's 70-year history, the military has successfully staged several coups and has directly and indirectly controlled the country for years.
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Haiti hasn't had a military since 1995, when it was disbanded after a series of coups, brutal crackdowns, and an American intervention.
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The world has seen only 18 attempted coups since 2010, and only four successfully installed a new leader for at least a month.
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In 2014 and then again in 2016, Erdogan accused Gulen of orchestrating failed coups against his regime from his perch in rural Pennsylvania.
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Under Ms Dlamini-Zuma, the AU has condemned blatant coups, but its monitors have approved elections that were far from free and fair.
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Turkey, which had believed the age of military coups was behind it, once again witnessed tanks on the streets of Istanbul and Ankara.
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Fonseca, who pledges to prioritize education, has led the West African archipelago since 2011, ensuring its stability in a region known for coups.
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In Latin American history, empires tend to have ideological preferences, and are willing to foment coups or send in troops to enforce them.
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Since independence from Belgium in 1960, Congo has experienced coups, civil conflicts in which millions have died, and long periods of authoritarian rule.
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After sweeping privatizations, fiscal discipline and banking reforms, Turkey's old problems - military coups, soaring debt and crawling growth - seemed firmly consigned to history.
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Better yet, CPEC could shift the national narrative—too often dominated by coups, extremists and a chippy kind of nationalism—towards economic construction.
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Unfriended was one of Blumhouse's standard low-budget horror box-office coups, with a $173 million budget and a $64 million global take.
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If Kabila does step down, the poll would mark the country's first democratic transition after decades of authoritarian rule, coups and civil war.
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That means that coups are typically marked by defections to whatever side appears to be winning, rather than outright military conflict between factions.
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Governments know this, and so generally respond to coups by putting loyalists in charge of the military, rather than killing soldiers en masse.
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This has led to a cycle of liberalisation, growing political participation and eventually elite-backed military coups to claw back power from politicians.
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In the past coups were incredibly common—the country has had at least a dozen attempts, with the latest successful one in 2012.
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The Christian experience is one of trauma in a country whose catalog of calamities includes terrorism, religious extremism, crime, coups and sectarian strife.
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In such places, coups lower the growth of income per person by as much as 1.3% a year over a decade (see chart).
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Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said in a statement on Tuesday that the "era of military coups and governments" were long gone in Africa.
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Thailand's Western allies criticized Prayuth's 2014 coup, which followed a decade of political turmoil that has brought two coups and bloody street protests.
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The government's goal is to end a cycle in which the country is constantly threatened by the prospect of army coups, he said.
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With its near-hysterical tone, the frieze is one of the great coups de théâtre of sculptural history and a lastingly influential one.
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In the era of technology-led coups, Congolese authorities are concerned about the millions of young citizens armed with the internet and cellphones.
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Along similar lines is Thailand's political model, where recurring coups have led to a military-dominated, semi-civilian polity that bars competitive elections.
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If Kabila does step down, December's election would herald Congo's first democratic transition following decades marked by authoritarian rule, coups and civil war.
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Australia has changed prime ministers five times since 2010, four times in party back-room coups and only once at a general election.
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Military coups may no longer be fashionable in Africa, but that doesn't mean that the military has removed its hands from the wheel.
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After leading an intense "Idomeneo" in Salzburg — the latest in his slew of recent coups at that festival — Teodor Currentzis did it again.
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Gerwarth counts 19183 violent conflicts in Europe, from civil wars to coups, between 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, and 1920 alone.
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Since the Republic was founded in 0003, there have been four coups where the military succeeded in taking power from democratically elected governments.
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Charging Carles Puigdemont, the fugitive former Catalan president, and his colleagues with rebellion, under a law aimed at stopping military coups, was self-defeating.
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Irons's voice is key to making the song a crystallization of Scar's myopic, grand ambition — there are several references to coups, succession, and injustice.
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Amnesty: Rights must be respected Turkey's history of military coups has long had "devastating consequences" for human rights, Amnesty International said in a statement.
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Parties linked to Mr Thaksin have won every election since 2001; the army has twice ousted Thaksinite governments in coups, most recently in 2014.
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There might have been a time, they say, when liberal political systems ended in military coups and fascist takeovers, but that era has ended.
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Egypt has seen significant macroeconomic improvement since the Arab Spring revolution and successive coups and terrorist attacks that rocked the country from 2011 onward.
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One opinion occasionally voiced is that coups might be helpful, allowing no-nonsense leaders to dispense with endless politicking and push through smart policies.
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This regularity has yielded a body of research about the causes and consequences of coups, with much of it focused on their economic dimensions.
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Anxiety about the king's health and the succession has formed the backdrop to over a decade of political upheaval that has included two coups.
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The failed coup upended a central assumption about Turkey, one hailed as among Mr. Erdogan's prime accomplishments: that the days of coups were over.
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Pakistan's military has ruled the South Asian nation for more than half of its 69-year history, after coups and from behind the scenes.
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I wish there had been more strange yet evocative coups of this sort in Mr. Herheim's polished-looking, well-executed, not-quite-persuasive production.
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It's also worth remembering that America's history of fomenting coups in Iran and overthrowing governments in Iraq and Libya has not had happy endings.
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At the same time, an infantry regiment and a cavalry battalion that were instrumental in past coups have been ordered out of the capital.
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Founded in 1924, Cumhuriyet is almost as old as the Turkish Republic itself, and has survived military coups, explosions and assassinations over the years.
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The C.I.A. helped overthrow elected leaders in Iran and Guatemala in the 19963s and backed violent coups in several other countries in the 1960s.
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In the annals of Africa's many uprisings and coups, the script often involves the strongman fleeing into exile or being imprisoned or even shot.
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He did not say whether Mr. Becker had ever visited the Central African Republic, a nation that has suffered wars, coups, dictatorships and famine.
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I am a New York Times correspondent in the Middle East, where I write more about coups and car bombs than about corporate mergers.
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In 1991, Jean-Bertrand Aristide—a charismatic priest from the slums with socialist leanings—became President, and his administration was twice interrupted by coups.
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The military has ruled Pakistan, a nuclear-armed country, through various coups for nearly half the country's history since it gained independence in 1947.
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Thailand's military has orchestrated more than a dozen successful coups, the latest in 403, and has ruled the country through a junta since then.
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Turkey's military, which in the past has seen itself as protecting a secular state, has staged four previous coups since 1960, the last in 1997.
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One reason that bloodless coups are so common is that Australian governments serve for three-year terms—one of the shortest tenures in the world.
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So far, the Brexit process has been a hot mess of political infighting and uncertainty, bureaucracy and backstabbing — amid threats of coups and leadership challenges.
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In this set-up, the prime minister could be removed by a vote of no confidence—no need for any more coups or mass protests.
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During the former's king 70 years of reign, the Southeast Asian country had seen military coups, street protests and the ousting of popularly elected governments.
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A major obstacle is the perennial concern about political stability in a country where the military has staged several coups since independence and attempted others.
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Dishonored 2 One of the deepest, most versatile stealth games about whale oil, Dishonored was an exciting gothic romp about cryptic powers and political coups.
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Thais, foreigners and investors no longer need fear the churning of Thailand's vicious cycle of elections, protests and coups—at least for a little while.
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Thailand remains politically divided between the county's urban middle classes and royalist-military elite and supporters of populist governments ousted in 2006 and 2014 coups.
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But the coexistence of the two interpretations hints at an important truth, scholars say: The line between coups and revolts can be blurry, even nonexistent.
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But this is unlikely, according to Erik Meyersson of the Stockholm Institute of Transitional Economics, who has looked at hundreds of failed and successful coups.
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In democracies—even imperfect ones such as Thailand or nascent ones such as Egypt—coups represent a fundamental rupture, altering the course of their development.
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He achieved diplomatic coups abroad during the Soviet era and successfully urged — sometimes forced — the integration of musical institutions and public spaces in the South.
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The military has ruled Pakistan through various coups for about half of the country's history, and no prime minister has ever completed a full term.
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TEMA, Ghana — As recently as the 2.73s, the West African nation of Ghana was in crisis, crippled by hunger after a series of military coups.
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By this point, Breitbart had become known for running a barrage of stories hyping potential coups against Mr. Boehner from more conservative members of Congress.
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Disillusioned by what he saw as the agency's unchecked excesses and its increasing involvement in attempted assassinations, coups and cover-ups, he resigned in 1969.
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If it goes ahead, Trump's meeting with Kim would go down in history alongside such diplomatic coups as Richard Nixon's courting of Mao Zedong's China.
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The Arab Spring was replaced by a descent into foreign interventions, proxy wars, counterrevolutions, coups, failed transitions, suffocating crackdowns and various destructive projections of power.
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Fleeing marriage, coups and arrest warrants, my mother joined street protests and picket lines, and wrote passionately about the oppression of the poor and powerless.
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The clashing views of the two camps aroused memories of protests that periodically roiled the Thai capital before culminating in coups in 2006 and 2014.
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Haiti has been politically turbulent for much of its history since winning independence from France in 1804, punctuated by dictatorships, coups, invasions and natural disasters.
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Levitsky and Ziblatt show how democracies have collapsed elsewhere — not just through violent coups, but more commonly (and insidiously) through a gradual slide into authoritarianism.
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Elections are a rare event in Congo, which has been plagued by authoritarian rule, assassinations, coups and civil wars since independence from Belgium in 1960.
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He has invoked historical references to coups in Ancient Rome and says he wants to "carefully look at" whether top US officials tried to counter Trump.
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The other modules are prone to arguing, bickering, disagreeing, subverting one another, spasming uncontrollably, staging coups, freaking the fuck out, and all sorts of other hysterics.
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This manifested in different ways, ranging from relatively benign policies like foreign aid to deeply controversial ones like CIA support for military coups against elected leaders.
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By the same token, the question of how the Thai economy might escape the middle-income trap has been ignored amid the endless coups and protests.
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The dramatic fall in the number of coups in Africa over the past two decades owes much to the AU's refusal to accept sudden military takeovers.
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Thailand's army, which has mounted 22011 attempted coups (212 of them successful) since the end of absolute monarchy in 1932, most recently took power in 2014.
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Anxiety about the king's health and the succession has formed the backdrop to over a decade of political upheaval in Thailand that has included two coups.
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He cited his leadership of two coups, the first in 2005, as evidence that he would not shy away from changing the constitution if he wanted.
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Coups in 1960 and 1980 resulted in mass arrests and executions; between a coup in 1971 and 1980, instability reigned, inflation skyrocketed, and thousands were assassinated.
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But in a striving Turkey of thriving capitalism and a still boisterous news media, memories of the damage to democracy fomented by past coups remains strong.
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"We are not in the 1960s and 1970s anymore, when coups in Africa were left, right and center," political analyst Mike Mavura told The Washington Post.
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Relations between the civilian government and military have often been strained in a country where several prime ministers, including Sharif himself, have been ousted in coups.
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With Prayuth's new government in place, Apirat vowed that the military would stay out of politics and said there would be no coups under his watch.
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However, Reuters interviews with senior military officers belie those claims and show that the military's ambition is to make future coups unnecessary by weakening political parties.
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The Central Intelligence Agency helped overthrow elected leaders in Iran and Guatemala in the 1950s and backed violent coups in several other countries in the 1960s.
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Yet also in that group is Thailand, which has been plagued by political instability, enduring a dozen coups since 1932 — the most recent one in 2014.
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With the upheaval of 40 years of coups and wars in Afghanistan, large-scale development plans, like hydroelectric projects, have largely been stalled since the 1970s.
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There have also been allegedly constitutional monarchs—those without real power—who backed coups, like Greece's Constantine II, or accepted fascist rule, like Belgium's Leopold III.
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So did expectations that he would follow first-term coups like a new bankruptcy code and a goods-and-services tax with fresh business-friendly measures.
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The senator received amnesty in 2011 under President Benigno Aquino for his involvement in three coups attempts in 2003, 2006 and 2007 during Gloria Arroyo's presidency.
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"It's the same loop over and over," Mr. Nutthapong said, of Thailand's brand of democracy interruptus: elections followed by coups, interspersed with bloodletting on the streets.
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She's a no-nonsense, stalwart sort of woman who has managed to hold on to her job through coups and rapes and usurpations of all sorts.
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In earlier coups, parts of the military believed that those in power were violating the key values of Kemalism, and felt called to protect the republic.
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Civilian governments have often struggled to get much done in between military coups, but voters are impressed by gleaming new projects, even if they never use them.
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Turkey has a long history of coups, most recently a failed putsch in 2016, thwarted by Erdogan supporters who took to the streets to fight the putschists.
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Venezuela's military had a history of uprisings, sometimes leading to coups of the sort that Chavez, when a lieutenant colonel in the army, had staged in 1992.
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The GOP had other major coups, including a furious effort to persuade Marco Rubio to abandon plans to quit the Senate and instead run for reelection; Sen.
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Mr Bio, a former general who participated in two coups in the 1990s, and who briefly took power himself in 1996, has tried to calm things down.
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The accusations have ratcheted up tensions in a country whose six decades of independence have been marked by long periods of military rule, coups and secessionist wars.
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Yes, but: The military is keeping all its options open, in one of the few wealthy or middle-income countries on earth where coups are still common.
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Pakistan has been plagued by boom-and-bust cycles and military coups since independence in 1947, as well as by Islamist militant violence in more recent years.
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Later, I would learn that the same text was read over and over in the last three coups, only tweaked here and there to fit the circumstances.
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A column in China's state run "Global Times" newspaper described the recent coups as symptomatic of the "collective dilemma" of countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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But Klinnak, 55, also fears Thaksin's return to politics could spell further unrest in a country rocked by coups and bloody street protests over the past decade.
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But the overlapping terms often carry moral connotations that could not be more divergent: Coups, in today's understanding, are to be condemned; revolts are to be championed.
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Two military coups ostensibly meant to stop the killing, one in 1971 and one in 1980, were perceived by some to be supported by the United States.
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The race is again expected to pit Thaksin's "red shirt" followers against the military and royalist establishment, which seized power in successive coups in 2006 and 2014.
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It would be a grave mistake to see Turkey as being like any other Middle Eastern country, where coups can easily find ground to spread their roots.
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A decade of tumultuous politics has included two coups, five elections and bouts of civil disobedience and street violence in which scores of people have been killed.
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It has intervened in national politics a number of times, including three previous coups since 1960, and it maneuvered to oust an Islamist prime minister in 1997.
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Unlike past bloodless coups in Turkey, this one does not have the implicitly understood support of the public, which appears to be divided over the military intervention.
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The late king was widely revered and seen as a force for stability during seven decades of rule marked by sporadic coups and bouts of political unrest.
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Watching before and after election day On a continent where outright coups used to be common, it does reflect important progress to have so many elections occurring.
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Stoking the existing tension among ethnic groups, military factions with power-hungry leaders unleashed an era of bitter internal conflict, coups d'état and uprisings during this period.
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Both coups were textbook cases: Powerful and tightly unified elites, who would have coordinated with relative ease, seized on protests to remove a weak and unpopular leader.
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The military overthrew pro-Thaksin governments with coups in 2006 and again in 2014, when it toppled one that had been led by Thaksin's sister, Yingluck Shinawatra.
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In interviews over the past week, residents described their frustration over the recurring back-room coups that, in their view, have stood in the way of governing.
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The fierce competition for lucrative United States government defense contracts isn't as sexy a plot element as the military coups Devlin once found himself caught up in.
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They've got freezers full of frozen meat, coups filled with chickens, tons of livestock, fruits and veggies galore, clean water tanks ... and they're solar-powered by Tesla!
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Venezuela has a history of coups and attempted overthrows at times of crisis, and many in the country now wonder if this is one of those times.
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His performance has put to rest fears of turmoil in a nation that has suffered through coups, military rule and a bloody separatist movement in the south.
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Perhaps General Apirat hopes that his stern lectures will make future coups unnecessary, by helping to keep all Thais in their place in King Vajiralongkorn's cosmic hierarchy.
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With Mr. Muskie's backing, Mr. Billings engineered his legislative coups as a shrewd, credible and dauntless negotiator, culling the characteristics he had admired most in his parents.
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Lesotho, which is encircled by South Africa, has a history of coups and political instability that has often led its bigger neighbor to intervene and restore order.
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Afghan officials point out that elections so far have managed to transfer power without coups or major factional violence, and so are demonstrably better than the alternatives.
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Afghan officials point out that elections so far have managed to transfer power without coups or major factional violence, and so are demonstrably better than the alternatives.
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Influence of Thaksin The phrase 'history repeats itself' has taken on a new meaning in Thailand, a nation that has seen a dozen successful coups since 1932.
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H.T., as Nawaz refers to it, advocates the imposition of Shariah law through "bloodless" coups in majority-Muslim countries first and ultimately in the West as well.
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No Pakistani prime minister has ever completed a full term since the state's inception in 1947, with most leadership tenures halted by coups, resignations, arrests, or assassinations.
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"People treat a revolution as if it has legitimacy, and coups as if they're illegitimate," Professor Singh said, as if there were a hard and clear distinction.
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Argentina had been chosen as the host nation in 1966, during a period of relative calm, despite intermittent military coups and the ousting of brittle civilian governments.
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Rivalry between the Bangkok-centered, royalist elites and Thaksin and his rural-based supporters has brought street protests, military coups, and violent clashes over almost 15 years.
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They were grossly underequipped to achieve their strategic objectives ... There was definitely quite a degree of incompetence compared to how coups were done here in the past.
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Foreign invasions, ousters by rebel forces, assassinations and resignations due to popular pressure are also not counted as coups (although they are tracked in the same data set).
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Thailand's political divide pits the forces behind populist governments ousted in 2006 and 2014 coups against the military, bureaucrats, and the middle class that support the royalist establishment.
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Now we've had a weekend of resignations, coups and plotting let's take a few minutes to reflect on some of the main points of the whole sorry saga.
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One of Authentic Brands' earliest coups was the acquisition of exclusive rights tied to Marilyn Monroe, whose likeness drew the interest of everyone from Dolce & Gabbana to Walmart.
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Annette can try to attack Claire how ever she wants in the press, because the president just pulled one of the biggest feminist coups in American political history.
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Other listeners—who may or may not support the AKP or Erdoğan—flooded public squares primarily to protest the violence that has almost inevitably followed previous military coups.
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Freedom from monarchy was the objective of a number of popular coups within the 18th century, but it is notable that other freedom movements also donned the cap.
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Thailand's tourism industry, which accounts for 10 percent of gross domestic product, has weathered more than a decade of unrest including two military coups and the recent bombings.
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In many cases—witness Ghana and Nigeria—unity was supposedly saved by military coups that were easily mounted because armies were the only strong institutions inherited from empire.
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There is booming demand for political-risk insurance that can protect companies against shocks, be they coups in Turkey, sanctions against Russia or a debt default by Venezuela.
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OVER the decades Turkey's relations with America, its principal military ally, have withstood coups, skirmishes with Greece (a fellow NATO ally) and the invasion of Cyprus in 1974.
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Haiti has been unable to build a stable democracy since the overthrow of the 1957-1986 dictatorship of the Duvalier family and ensuing military coups and election fraud.
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The antiheroic nature of the two moments—war by deception and then by determination, more than by strategic coups—raises the big question: Was Grant a great general?
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The AKP, founded by Erdogan more than a decade ago, has broad cross-party support for overhauling the constitution, which dates back to an era of military coups.
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Of the coups mentioned above, evidence of the U.S. role is documented beyond a reasonable doubt in all of them except Ecuador, where there is no hard evidence.
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By stocking the force with loyalists and purging suspected enemies, he created a counterweight to the military, which has a history of carrying out coups against civilian governments.
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Thailand's government has been overturned by military coups 13 times since absolute monarchy ended in 1932, including the coup in 2014 that put the current junta in place.
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The junta said the draft was intended to reduce the possibility of coups, but critics said that it would diminish the role of democracy in the political system.
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There has been a steep decline in coups in recent decades, with the rise of democratization and especially the emergence of multi-party competition in most of Africa.
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A pivotal figure in Congo, whose history has been marked by foreign intervention, civil war, coups and authoritarian rule, Tshisekedi's stalwart activism meant he could draw huge crowds.
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From prehistory to modern elections, through military dictatorships or palace coups or by riding the power of the masses, ambitious individuals shake up their nations and change history.
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In the lulls between the revolutions, coups and wars that shaped modern Iraq, he captured family picnics, well-dressed Western tourists standing near ancient ruins and everyday moments.
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Democracy activists say the new military-backed Constitution worked in favor of the country's armed forces, which has orchestrated more than a dozen successful coups over the years.
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In Russia, he covered protests, failed coups and the collapse of the Soviet Union, winning a Pulitzer Prize for spot photography in 1991 with his Associated Press colleagues.
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This is why coups are often led by colonels or civilians of equivalent rank, who also enjoy fewer fruits of patronage and so face less downside in defecting.
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One of Ms. Jarvis's greatest coups came in 1962, when she used persistence and connections to get permission to film inside the Kremlin for an NBC special broadcast.
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Thailand's toxic political environment has led to dozens of deaths in crackdowns on street protests and given the army excuses to step out of the barracks for coups.
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"The Gezi events were a heinous attack targeting the people and state, just like military coups," Erdogan said in a speech to his AK Party lawmakers in parliament.
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They were grossly under-equipped to achieve their strategic objectives ... There was definitely quite a degree of incompetence compared to how coups were done here in the past.
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The deep state is a phrase often heard in countries where there is a history of military coups and where generals often hold power independent of elected leaders.
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But the crisis marks a large step backward for the region as a whole, which many hoped had left behind its cycle of dictatorships, coups and foreign interventions.
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Just then, someone next to me in the crowd started complaining about how the news coverage of the recent events had mentioned coups d'état and a military invasion.
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The country's armed forces have directly and indirectly ruled Pakistan since it declared independence from British India in 1947, and have staged several coups to overthrow the government.
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Outright fascist movements were mostly discredited after World War II, and data on military coups shows a clear decline in their frequency since a peak in the 1960s.
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Certainly the United States has its own decent track record of intervening in foreign countries' politics, often up to and including directly fomenting coups against disfavored foreign leaders.
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The election will mark Congo's first transfer of power at the ballot box since independence from Belgium in 1960, after decades of coups, dictatorship, assassinations and civil wars.
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Thailand is the country that has seen the most successful coups since 1946 (10), according to the data, followed by Bolivia (eight), Syria (eight), Argentina (seven) and Haiti (six).
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That sets the stage for America First policies in a world where American blood and treasure would no longer go for violent "regime changes," coups d'état and color revolutions.
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Despite a history of military coups, the country of 75 million people is the region's oldest democracy, and has helped provide stability in southeastern Europe and the Middle East.
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Donald Trump pulled off one of the most unlikely electoral coups of modern times this week, toppling the political and media establishment to become the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
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And by overturning democracies in other countries — in particular, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador — by supporting corporate coups as Hillary Clinton did in Honduras, giving them the thumbs up.
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The African Union (AU) has adopted a policy of "zero tolerance" towards coups, though it sometimes turns a blind eye if given a semi-plausible excuse to do so.
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"He is in the midst of a transition team that was never well-prepared to begin with and is now torn by acrimony, resignations and palace coups," Cohen wrote.
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History is littered with cases of military-supported transitions of power (whether you call them coups or uprisings) that are supposed to lead to elections and democracy … and don't.
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Mightier military Analysts say the constitution will allow the military to maintain power in future without the need to stage coups, of which Thailand has seen 12 since 1932.
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Season five (the first without creator Armando Iannucci running the show) ended with Selina being ousted from office through the Senate's deployment of several arcane rules and legislative coups.
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As Russia and Turkey, despite their differences, continue to cooperate, America must also assist its ally and support its efforts to maintain a stable government without any additional coups.
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Anxiety over the king's health and the succession has formed the backdrop to over a decade of political upheaval that has included two coups and sometimes violent street protests.
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Experts on Bolivia and on coups joined forces on Monday to challenge the black-and-white characterizations, urging pundits and social media personalities to see the shades of gray.
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But since 21976, when the country returned to democracy after 290 years of civil war, military rule, and destabilizing coups, Nollywood has seen explosive growth and increasing international visibility.
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Meanwhile, Morales lashed out at his political opponents, calling it a return to the bleak era of coups d'etat overseen by Latin American militaries that long dominated the region.
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The ensuing years have complicated those hopes: coups, government collapse and rebirth, and more recently, the advent of Islamist terrorism—fighters pushing against the remaining vestiges of Western colonialism.
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It has intervened in national politics a number of times, including three previous coups since 1960, and, as recently as 1997, it maneuvered to oust an Islamist prime minister.
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I had visited nearly every country in the Americas, mastered the bureaucratic skills needed to get things done and served on crisis task forces for hurricanes, earthquakes and coups.
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The results were not glorious snapshots of the barbudos entering Havana in January of 1959 but rather military coups, torture, disappearances and thousands of student lives lost in vain.
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KINSHASA (Reuters) - In his 28 years, Congolese historian Isidore Ndaywel has lived through independence from Belgium, two coups d'etat, multiple civil wars and three changes to the country's name.
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PARIS — Le rappeur Médine compare souvent sa musique à de la boxe : en 15 ans de carrière, il a décroché autant de coups de poing directs que de crochets.
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The messy election comes after nearly 15 years of turmoil, during which Thailand saw two army coups, in 2006 and 2014, which ousted Thaksin and his sister Yingluck respectively.
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If Kabila does step down, it would mark Congo's first democratic transition since independence from Belgium in 1960, after decades marked by authoritarian rule, coups and catastrophic civil wars.
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"Stop the whispering, stop the corridor coups, stop trying to pressure an elected leader of the Labour Party to stand down without any vote or democracy," his spokesman said.
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The views are not without basis — there have been repeated military coups in Pakistan, and the military and the spy service often operate largely independent of the country's politicians.
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Those deals may seem on the surface like coups for Trump, but experts say they're relatively minor moves unlikely to dramatically impact the serious trade imbalance between the two countries.
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The industry, which accounts for 10 percent of gross domestic product, has been resilient to political upheaval over the last decade that has included violent street protests and military coups.
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Both seized power in coups, and both have clung to it for decades: Mr Obiang, who has been in office for 37 years, is the world's longest-serving political leader.
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According to Naunihal Singh, a political scientist at the Air War College, coups tend to succeed when their leaders convince other members of the military that they will inevitably succeed.
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It's no accident that the rise of Trump has coincided with fearful but titillated worries about coups d'état, collapses into tyranny, and even a second American civil war or secession.
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FOR decades Cameroon, wedged between central and west Africa, enjoyed a reputation for calm and stability while its neighbours were mired in a cycle of coups-d'état, wars and bloodshed.
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According to CoupCast, a predictive model based on 68 economic and other variables, Africa is the only continent where the factors that foster coups are still fairly widespread (see map).
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I think a lot of the writing that deals with this issue never looks at it next to all the coups and assassinations and interventions that made Americans so unpopular.
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For decades, Haiti has endured coups d'états, authoritarian governments, complex political conflicts, and international interventions that have left behind weak institutions incapable of providing the basic needs of its people.
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When commodity prices fell in the 1980s, the result was a series of coups and a generation of war, much of it paid for by superpowers competing with each other.
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He notes that the guerrilla overthrow of Nicaragua scared the United States government, with Reagan responding by arming death squads in El Salvador to prevent similar coups throughout Central America.
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Finance editor Edward McBride is joined by Simon Rabinovitch, who has delved into the history of coups to find out how attempts to overthrow a government can disrupt economic growth.
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The colonisers would leave behind a dystopian system, prone to wars and coups, held together by secret policemen, torturers and petrodollars, and supported by cold-war sponsors and foreign soldiers.
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His AK Party has long had strained relations with the military, which has a history of mounting coups to defend secularism, although it has not seized power directly since 1980.
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The Interpreter If the attempted coup in Turkey came as a surprise, there was good reason: The event went against decades of research on how, when and why coups happen.
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Nikos Konstandaras ATHENS — Military coups have been an integral part of politics through most of the modern history of Greece and Turkey, shaping them domestically and determining relations between them.
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King Bhumibol was a stabilizing figure in an increasingly polarized country that has had many military coups, and Thais viewed him as a selfless monarch devoted to his people's welfare.
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He notes that the guerrilla overthrow of Nicaragua scared the United States government, with Reagan responding by arming death squads in El Salvador to prevent similar coups throughout Central America.
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Few would go so far as to predict mass violence or coups d'état if Mr. Trump lost and refused to concede, given the country's loyalty to the rule of law.
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The term "color revolution" first gained currency in China to describe antigovernment insurrections in former Soviet bloc countries, which Chinese officials have said were coups inspired by the United States.
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He is running for prime minister as the candidate for the Palang Pracharat Party, which is considered a proxy for a military that has engineered 12 successful coups since 1932.
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"That is the risk we are facing," he said, though he argued that Sudan's history of revolutions and coups had better prepared its opposition parties for negotiations with the military.
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His work with Chinese intelligence coincided with the demolition of the C.I.A.'s network of informants in China — one of the biggest counterintelligence coups against the United States in decades.
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There have been several coups in the landlocked West African nation, which the West sees as an important ally against terrorism, since independence from former colonial ruler France in 1960.
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I anticipated multiculturalism bolstering Turkish democracy, already so diminished by those same conflicts, by military coups justified in the name of secularism and by the periodic disbanding of political parties.
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Past Turkish administrations had to live in check by a once-powerful military elite that saw itself as the guardian of secularism and had a long history of successful coups.
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The Sunday vote also showed how the Thai military, which has orchestrated a dozen coups over the past nine decades, is using a fresh tactic: elections to entrench its power.
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The question of whether Gambia can install opposition figure Adama Barrow as president is seen as a test case for African democracy in a region accustomed to coups and political unrest.
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Mr. Porumboiu, as usual, is playing a long game, keeping you engaged with his rigorous formal wit until he can deliver a series of narrative and visual coups at the end.
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And today, we celebrate little sister Bella's latest break in a series of huge industry coups: The 20-year old just landed a spot in the upcoming Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.
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After it adopted a "zero-tolerance" policy for coups in 2000, the number of successful military takeovers in Africa fell, from 38 between 1980 and 2000 to only 15 since then.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand has seen two coups, dueling street demonstrations and political instability over most of the past two decades, much of it centered around the divisive figure of Thaksin Shinawatra.
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Just half a year ago he pulled off one of the most audacious political coups in recent European history, trouncing a tired political establishment to become France's youngest leader since Napoleon.
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In 2008 Iftikhar Chaudhry helped to oust General Pervez Musharraf, a military dictator, overturning the Supreme Court's previously pliant reputation, which it had gained by rubber-stamping a series of coups.
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Thailand's tourism industry, which accounts for about 10 percent of gross domestic product, has remained strong despite more than a decade of political turbulence including military coups in 43 and 2014.
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"People who get hung up on whether or not something is a coup or a revolution are missing the point," said Naunihal Singh, a leading scholar of power transitions and coups.
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" Near the finish in Montauban, the local government set up a display to support the unusual claim that it is the source of the common French expression "faire les 400 coups.
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Successful coups in countries like Turkey, which have strong military and political institutions, typically follow an "institutional coup" model, according to Brian Klaas, a fellow at the London School of Economics.
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Media controls Between 1970 -- when Fiji achieved independence from British colonial rule -- and 13, the Pacific island nation had four military coups, with the most recent, in 2006, lasting eight years.
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The tourism industry has weathered more than a decade of political unrest including two military coups and a wave of bombings in August that targeted tourist spots in the Thai south.
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His seven-decade rule spanned some of the most tumultuous moments in modern Thai history, including several coups, a deadly crackdown on student protesters, natural disasters and a regional financial crisis.
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But from an American perspective, there is a key similarity: These coups were a disaster for US policy in both cases, and would have been regardless of how they turned out.
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But the military has never been far from power, has engineered several coups in the country's short seven-decade history, and has a disproportionately large number of business interests inside Pakistan.
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The Democrats are scheduled to hold their leadership elections on Thursday — a timeline that some strategists said is an indication that Democratic leaders want to move quickly to prevent any coups.
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Turkish democracy is generally — and inadequately — understood to have been undermined by the military allegedly staging coups to protect secularism and, in recent years, by the Islamist ambitions of Mr. Erdogan.
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With a reputation for leveraged buyouts, Mr. Malek's financial coups over the years included the acquisition of the Ritz Carlton Hotel Company, Northwest Airlines and Coldwell Banker, now CB Richard Ellis.
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His main challenge will be to ensure a free and fair vote amid heightened tensions between leading politicians as the country, prone to coups, aims to make its second democratic transition.
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Photograph courtesy Ben Taub He grew up measuring political eras by military coups—1978, 1979, 1984—changes in power that did little to alter the ways in which Mauritanians experienced power.
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This is a thoughtful series that lingers over death rather than using it for shock value; one that finds its story lines in small power struggles rather than gruesome palace coups.
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But recently, explorers found a millennium of lost history at the bottom of the Black Sea, photographing more than 40 shipwrecks off the Bulgarian coast in one of archaeology's greatest coups.
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Trump rallied for 36 GOP House and Senate candidates and tweeted about an "invasion" staged by caravans of immigrants approaching the country's southern border, deep-state coups, and Russia witch hunts.
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A response to years of military coups, regional uprisings and sectarian unrest, the vote helped restore legal and political order, providing a forum where warring anti-Communist factions could deliberate peacefully.
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The draft constitution would preclude the need for any future coups because the military, which historically has operated independently of civilian rule, would have indirect but decisive power over future governments.
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I read article after article on the unfolding revolutionary chaos, the power seizures and coups, the juntas, the leftist turns against the juntas, the brave stands taken by peasants and clergy.
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Erdogan's Islamist-rooted AK Party has long had strained relations with the military, which has a history of mounting coups to defend secularism, although it has not seized power directly since 1980.
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The ruling AK Party, founded by President Tayyip Erdogan more than a decade ago, has broad cross-party support for overhauling the constitution, which dates back to an era of military coups.
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Thailand has endured bomb attacks and economic worries recently while rivalry simmers between the military-led establishment and populist political forces after a decade of turmoil including two coups and deadly protests.
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In the long run, the exaggerated respect the monarchy commands is an impediment to the proper functioning of democracy in Thailand, even when it is not being used to legitimise military coups.
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From 22006, when he acceded to the throne, to the present, Bhumibol reigned over more than 280 prime ministers, more than a dozen coups (both attempted and successful) and repeated constitutional changes.
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Senior army officers have told Reuters the new charter aims to make future coups unnecessary by weakening political parties and ensuring the military a role in overseeing Thailand's economic and political development.
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It's a script that's played out at least five more times in African nations this year: Unrest, coups, and uprisings are met with internet shutdowns by authorities aiming to sure up control.
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After decades of political turbulence and military coups, oil extraction had made Nigeria the richest country in Africa, and yet the percentage of people living in total poverty was growing each year.
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The Pax Americana that emerged after WWII was in fact riddled with American breaches of the peace: invasion, assassination, and funding and arms support for coups d'état, torture, repression, and civil war.
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Thaksin's camp, which has won every election since 2001, has been unable to assert control over non-elected bodies, particularly the judiciary and the military, prompting bouts of street protests and coups.
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Mr. Castellucci, 56, is hailed for sophisticated visuals, often deafening soundscapes and daring directorial coups — as when he had a real tank roll onstage and aim at the audience in Strasbourg, France.
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Erdogan's Islamist-rooted AK Party has long had strained relations with the military, which has a history of mounting coups to defend secularism although it has not seized power directly since 1980.
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While Turkey has a history of coups, the country has changed considerably since its last, in 1997, and Mr. Ulfelder stressed that what mattered more was its nearly 20 years without one.
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One of Cook's biggest early coups was closing Apple's own factories and warehouses and replacing them with contract manufacturers, meaning that devices could be made in larger quantities and get delivered faster.
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The conceptual coups of the show reside in its placing the stress on Hamilton's being an outsider and having that status align with the modern conversation about who "belongs" in this country.
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Uncharted path King Bhumibol ruled Thailand for seven decades, a time in which the country underwent massive change and turmoil, including war and more than a dozen coups (both attempted and successful).
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The armed forces for decades wielded considerable power in Turkey, carrying out a series of coups between 1960 and 1980 and triggering the collapse of Turkey's first Islamist-led government in 1997.
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The secretary learned his time was up while on a diplomatic mission to Africa, rather in the manner African despots would be deposed when out of the country (Trump operates through coups).
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Much of what is heard now in the halls of the Capitol sounds familiar — invocations of constitutional duty, encomiums to the rule of law and complaints about witch hunts and partisan coups.
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In effect, critics say France is helping shore up governments that lack confidence in their own armies, either doubting their ability to fight extremists or worrying about the possibility of military coups.
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All across opposition territory, fighters linked to al-Qaeda were seizing pockets of turf in silent coups, like a snake gobbling up small prey as it lay in wait for something bigger.
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"It used to be coups and assassinations and now it's the busy politics of coalition and all sorts of political maneuvering," said Vincent Foucher of the French National Centre for Scientific Research.
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On était en train de jouer la toute fin d'une chanson quand les séries de coups de feux ont commencé, mais sur le coup on n'était pas sûr de ce que c'était.
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Kotzias also said one should steer clear of making associations between people who fight for their rights in a democratic way and those who carry out coups, bomb parliaments and kill protesters.
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He is among the numerous presidents elected in the past decade in peaceful and democratic votes in the region, building hope that a time of bloody coups and strongmen was finally gone.
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Since Pakistan's independence, the country's armed forces have staged multiple coups to successfully overthrow the government, and analysts believe they likely had a hand in directing the outcome of this election as well.
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Bhumibol's succession has prompted worries about instability in a country that has witnessed 19 coups or attempted ones and at least 633 constitutions since a constitutional monarchy replaced an absolute one in 1932.
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Erdogan counters that the changes are necessary to ensure stability in a country that faces an array of security threats and has a history of political instability, including several coups since the 103s.
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Amazon has pulled off one of the most successful public relations coups in memory, creating more than a year of wild public suspense and — among cities — deep longing to host its next headquarters.
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The country has a history of coups in which the military brought down governments they thought were too autocratic, too inept, or too religious in an attempt to press the democratic reset button.
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Anxiety over the king's health and the succession to the throne has formed the backdrop to more than a decade of political upheaval that has included two coups and sometimes violent street protests.
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Trump has encouraged his fans to exploit open and concealed carry laws as they target those whose appearance indicates they might vote the "wrong way"; there's talk of coups, violent uprisings and assassinations.
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The election comes after nearly 15 years of turmoil, during which conflicts between supporters of ousted former premier Thaksin and his establishment opponents manifested in street protests, violent clashes, and two military coups.
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"There's been so many coups in Thai history that when you see military vehicles on the street, something must be up," said Paul Chambers, a lecturer for international affairs at Thailand's Naresuan University.
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During a decade of unrest, political divisions in Thailand have broadly pitted the military, bureaucrats and the middle class against supporters of populist governments that were overthrown by coups in 2006 and 2014.
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The anti-Thaksin Yellow Shirts, mostly middle class and urban royalists who accuse his parties of corruption, have repeatedly taken to the streets, prompting the military to launch two coups in a decade.
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The nation of 2 million people has been hit by several coups since independence from Britain in 1966 and army troops were on duty until the polls closed at 1500 GMT on Saturday.
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The opposition's fraud accusations have heightened tensions in the region's most populous nation and biggest oil producer where six decades of independence have seen long periods of military rule, coups and secessionist wars.
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Reuters interviews with senior officers show the military's ambition is to make coups unnecessary through the new constitution by ensuring the military has a role in overseeing the country's economic and political development.
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South-East Asia has had more than its share of modern horrors, including genocides (eg, Cambodia), civil wars (Vietnam and, still, Myanmar), race riots (Malaysia, Singapore), coups (Thailand) and pogroms (Indonesia, Myanmar again).
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But today's world rarely fits the black-and-white narratives that emerged from the Cold War and that still shape expectations that coups and revolts are morality tales with clear heroes and villains.
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But it has been discredited, at first through successive military coups that undermined civilian governments, and later through terrorism, insurgency and the vanishing writ of the state from great sections of the country.
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Using another group of countries, Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler of Oxford University found in 2007 that the risk of coups fell by about 27% as the level of income per person doubled.
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Having served as army chief, he was seen by political analysts as having significant influence with Thailand's powerful royalist military which has staged 13 coups since the end of absolute monarchy in 1932.
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Qatar has not only been trying to break the spell of impending coups and internal political strife, but it is also trying to export this practice to the neighboring countries of the region.
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That's not to say any of the leading Democrats or Republicans are staging civil coups to ascend to the Oval Office, nor literally manipulating foreign nations or terrorist groups to serve political optics.
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In the end, a relationship with the government that emerges is strained, both by such accusations and by the ensuing crackdown and human rights abuses that usually follow both successful and unsuccessful coups.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - One of Singapore's greatest strengths is its predictability: in a region where coups and economic meltdowns are not uncommon, it has long been a haven of stability for investors and businesses.
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Parties loyal to former telecommunications tycoon Thaksin have defeated pro-establishment parties to win every election since 2001, but since 2006 each of their governments have been removed by court rulings or coups.
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Mr. Carsen's visual coups — the sets and costumes of the staging, which dates back to a 1988 run in Geneva, are by Michael Levine — match Boito's soaring music; they're stunning in their simplicity.
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Ahmet Altan was charged after he said on a TV show: "Whatever the developments were that lead to military coups in Turkey, by making the same decisions, Erdogan is paving the same path".
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This kind of acrimony is on display in the remains of the US Embassy in Tehran, where the CIA once plotted coups, and American diplomats were held hostage for 444 days in 1979.
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In a live statement broadcast on CNN Turk, Dundar said many military commanders have been taken hostage by the rebels but he declared that Turkey has "closed the chapter" on coups for good.
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Here are six examples of citizen-led insurrections, rebellions, and coups d'etat that show the misguided militiamen starving in an Oregon wildlife refuge this week are not only poorly prepared, but also unoriginal.
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Although he had no formal political role, during his seven decades on the throne, King Bhumibol was seen as a unifying force for a nation frequently troubled by coups and deadly political violence.
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However the coup attempt highlighted popular support for the leader and for Turkey's democracy among a people who are fed up with political instability - there have been four coups of varying degrees since 1960.
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Thailand has weathered more than a decade of unrest including military coups in 2006 and 2014 and a wave of deadly bombings in August that killed four Thai tourists and injured dozens, including foreigners.
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Helped by the high price of oil for much of his tenure, he brought stability to a country that had seen eight presidents, three coups and a currency collapse in the previous 103 years.
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The six new installments arriving (one of which runs a movie-length 90-minutes), representing half of Netflix's order, feature some modest upgrades, and even a few casting coups indicative of the show's cachet.
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In an open letter to Obama earlier this month, Argentine Nobel peace prize winner Adolfo Perez Esquivel urged the U.S. president to acknowledge that Washington was an accomplice in military coups throughout Latin America.
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Although Senegal has avoided the worst of the corruption—not to mention the coups and civil wars—that have plagued its neighbourhood, it is hardly the model democracy it is often held to be.
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Teaching strained by a succession of coups—the last change of government occurred in late 2015—Operndorf Afrika's school has always been the project's primary focus, offering extended lessons in film, art and music.
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Interviews with military officers showed the military's ambition was to make future coups unnecessary by weakening political parties and obliging future governments to follow a 20-year national development plan set by the army.
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Singh drew on a huge data set of coup attempts, as well as hundreds of hours of interviews with actual coup participants, to develop a comprehensive picture of what makes coups succeed or fail.
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The AK Party has broad cross-party support for overhauling Turkey's constitution, which dates back to an era of military coups, but there are wide divergences over what a new charter should look like.
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Prominent Democrats have been at the center of Thailand's turbulent politics since 22000, with some party members leading anti-Thaksin "Yellow Shirt" protests against corruption that led to two military coups in a decade.
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CARACAS, Venezuela — The Organization of American States said Tuesday that it had begun taking steps against Venezuela to defend democracy in the region, a rare rebuke once reserved for countries undergoing crises like coups.
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I tried to tell him about all the good things Costa Rica had — the education, the health care, the eco-tourism, the lack of any military coups (they haven't had a military since 1948).
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Long-ruling Jammeh conceded defeat but then changed his mind, plunging one of West Africa's tourist hot spots into crisis and dimming hopes for democracy in a region accustomed to coups and autocratic rule.
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Lesotho, a nation of two million people, has been hit by several coups since gaining independence from Britain in 1966 and its last two elections failed to produce a winner with a clear majority.
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He scored several coups for the house, striking agreements to auction important American-owned works in England, including, in June 284, Vasily Kandinsky paintings offered by the Guggenheim Foundation and sold for $21972 million.
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Many of her coups were made possible through collaborations: Ms. Moss learned to cooperate in the sometimes sharp-elbowed classical music world with entities that in the past might have been viewed as rivals.
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Years of marketing coups at Bell & Howell, including sponsorship of "CBS Reports" and other public-service television programming, brought Mr. Peterson to the attention of President Richard M. Nixon, who invited him to Washington.
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Military coups rarely lead to democratic transitions; when they do, it's mostly in cases when the target is an established dictator, as in Venezuela in 1958, the Philippines in 19803 and Paraguay in 1989.
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Just a few months ago, Elon Musk pulled off one of the great coups in automotive history, launching the Model 3, the long-range, $35,000 car that will bring Tesla's electric ambitions to the masses.
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In the age of repressive military coups in Argentina and the ill-fated junta in Brazil, Pinochet's power grab in Chile and Castro's queer concentration camps in Cuba, perhaps these countries represent prescient political landscapes.
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Naunihal Singh, a political scientist and one of America's leading experts on coups, argues that the current situation is not at all a coup, but rather an extension of ordinary bureaucratic politics to extraordinary times.
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Trump, with his warnings of coups and illegal behavior is seeking to fire up his loyal supporters to insulate him against any slippage of support among Republicans in the event of a Senate impeachment trial.
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So he did the typical activist shareholder thing—see: the multiple coups that once took place within Yahoo—and decided to vote against it, bringing some of the other foreign investors in along with him.
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"It's a sign of respect for the royal family only," he said, noting that many Fijians still regard her as their Queen even though the country became a republic in 1987 after two military coups.
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It's the heart of the Obama administration, and it seems like much of America has forgotten about the CIA's habit of torturing potential witnesses and orchestrating assassinations in order to stage coups in other countries.
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President Tayyip Erdogan accused the West of supporting terrorism and standing by coups on Tuesday, questioning Turkey's relationship with the United States and saying the "script" for an abortive putsch last month was "written abroad".
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Anxiety over the king's health and an eventual succession has formed the backdrop to more than a decade of bitter political divide in Thailand that has included two military coups and often-violent street demonstrations.
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A credible and relatively calm poll would open a new chapter in the chequered political history of Nigeria, where nearly six decades of independence have been tarnished by military coups, endemic corruption and secessionist movements.
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A credible and relatively calm vote would open a new chapter in the chequered political history of Nigeria, where nearly six decades of independence have been tarnished by military coups, endemic corruption and secessionist movements.
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"BAD PEOPLE" The election comes after nearly 15 years of turmoil, during which conflicts between supporters of ousted former premier Thaksin and his establishment opponents manifested in street protests, violent clashes, and two military coups.
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The dramatic intervention was classic Comey: the towering FBI chief, branded a "showboat" by Trump, has a reputation for theatrical public coups, and his move will only intensify the anticipation for his appearance on Thursday.
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The question of whether Gambia can overcome its political impasse and install Barrow as president next week is seen as a test case for African democracy in a region used to coups and autocratic rule.
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A credible and relatively calm vote would open a new chapter in the checkered political history of Nigeria, where nearly six decades of independence have been tarnished by military coups, endemic corruption and secessionist movements.
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Australia's next election is not due until 2019 but consistently poor opinion polling in Australia's rough-and-tumble political system has unseated three previous prime ministers in party-room coups in the past seven years.
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Terror attacks and military coups in Tunisia, Egypt and Turkey dented bookings in these once-profitable places, while a sudden fall in bookings after Brexit forced Thomas Cook to issue a profit warning last month.
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Hugo Chavez and Nicolás Maduro, fearing the history of invasion and U.S. supported coups, consciously armed and trained tens of thousands of their supporters into militias precisely to prepare for armed attacks against their governments.
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She all but stopped work for the next four years and, once she resumed, she never recovered the selfless focus and intensity of her temple pictures, despite occasional coups of inventive design and expressive panache.
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However, unlike Cold War-era coups in which military troops marched on capital cities and took control of government buildings, Bolivia's armed forces only issued a statement with a "suggestion" of what Morales should do.
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"I'm very worried about the president's intention to say that Brazil is some minor republic where coups are carried out," said Mr. Temer, expressing concern about Ms. Rousseff's trip to the United Nations on Friday.
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Progressives view these coups as evidence that conservatives, who are, by definition, diametrically opposed to progressives, are bound to wind up on the losing team in the long run, whatever the cultural battle may be.
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A credible and relatively calm poll would open a new chapter in the checkered political history of Nigeria, where nearly six decades of independence have been tarnished by military coups, endemic corruption and secessionist movements.
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They had witnessed so much: Jean-Claude Duvalier's dictatorship, coups, armed gangs during Jean-Bertrand Aristide's presidency, U.N. peacekeepers who brought cholera, all of it a lather of misery and instability that stretched over decades.
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Ethiopia has lived through coups and popular revolutions before, and in recent years the Oromo, who make up the country's biggest ethnic group but have long been marginalized, have been at the forefront of protests.
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A coups de versements réguliers, et jusqu'à sa mort des suites d'un cancer, Baldwin avait entrepris de racheter la maison à sa propriétaire, Jeanne Faure, qui avait grandi en Algérie sous le régime colonial français.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Military coups are rarely good for business but at least one small sector of Turkey's economy has seen a roaring trade since a failed army revolt on July 15 - the nation's flag sellers.
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Although a revolution in 1932 made the country a constitutional monarchy, a series of subsequent governments, many of them installed by military coups, inculcated reverence for the king as a means of bolstering their own legitimacy.
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Looking to these recent examples suggests that the US Constitution may be good at checking coups or the anti-democratic deployment of emergency powers, but it isn't well-suited to stall the slow decay of democracy.
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Seen as a unifying force in the politically-divided country that had been subject to some 20 coups - including unsuccessful ones - during his 70 years of reign, the king died in a Bangkok hospital on Thursday.
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Amidst allegations of pettiness and tales of public relations coups, the report reveals how hard Facebook tried to remain in the good graces of politicians, even at the expense of the "transparency" and "community" it champions.
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When she went back home, my grandmother wouldn't believe her until she turned on the radio and heard it with her own ears, despite having lived through two other coups before—in 1960 and 1971, respectively.
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Indeed, in some respects, perhaps amongst the most interesting lessons of these most recent coups is what they may tell us about future leadership change in Russia and China, the world's two most powerful autocratic states.
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"Man, this is going to go viral," he said, at the end of a segment that made fun of the role that Buhari, a former general, had played in three military coups before being elected President.
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Looking at a sample of 121 countries, John Londregan and Keith Poole, then of Carnegie Mellon University, concluded in 1990 that coups were 21 times more likely to occur in the poorest than in the wealthiest.
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And for the first time, military members were allowed to vote in parliamentary elections, something that had been long banned by Mr. Assad and his father to avoid political involvement by army officers and potential coups.
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Thais came to see this Buddhist king as a father figure wholly dedicated to their welfare, and as the embodiment of stability in a country where political leadership rose and fell through decades of military coups.
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Paraguay, a small, landlocked country of fewer than seven million people in the middle of South America, has a long history of conflicts, revolutions and coups d'état followed by 35 years of autocratic government under Gen.
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On the event of their 17th birthdays, my classmates would appear in the school parking lot in brand-new Audis and Mercedes coups, Yaz's "Upstairs at Eric's" blasting from their state-of-the-art sound systems.
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" Buttigieg also panned the senator for his remarks to "60 Minutes" about the revolutionary regime of Fidel Castro in Cuba, saying the debate this year shouldn't be about "what coups happened in the 1970s and 80s.
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Barely out of their teens, and stoked by cyclical military coups, Pink Floyd, and DC Comics, the musicians melded American rock, British pop, and Brazilian bossa nova, ornamenting political messages as suavely as Harrison and Hendrix.
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When the dawn broke that Sunday morning, most of us left the press office, with its badminton tournament trophies and pantheon of portraits of long-passed reporters who covered martial law and revolutions and coups d'etats.
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Since helping to overthrow an absolute monarchy in what was then Siam in 1932, the military has staged 19 coups, 12 of them successful, and has provided 12 of its 29 prime ministers in that time.
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He was widely seen as a father figure and regarded as the nation's moral compass during decades of on-off political turbulence including several coups, bloody street protests and a region-wide 1997/98 financial crisis.
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Largely for that reason, Southern planters led coups against local governments that supported Reconstruction, and went on to bar blacks and many poor whites from voting and to construct a system of Jim Crow racial exclusion.
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A calm reaction to the election result could open a new chapter in the turbulent political history of Nigeria, where nearly six decades of independence have been marred by military coups, endemic corruption and secessionist movements.
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The persistent smog has become a rallying cry for some people in Bangkok, where the aftermath of years of coups, street protests and army crackdowns has made the city seem, at least outwardly, an apolitical place.
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"Post-truth" politics and "alternative facts" have long been deployed in Latin America, from Mr Fujimori's use of tabloid newspapers to smear opponents, to Chávez's imaginary coups and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's fake inflation statistics in Argentina.
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In the months leading up to my move, I witnessed the image of the country turn from one of partying, tiny bikinis, caipirinhas, and samba to one of political coups, violence, mosquito-borne diseases, and economic collapse.
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Thailand has seen at least two coups over the past decade and several natural disasters, including nationwide floods in 2011 which crippled industry, but those events have failed to dent travelers' enthusiasm for the Southeast Asian country.
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The shadow cast by American-led military invasions and coups in the 20th century left almost all the region's states agreeing that intervention in the internal affairs of other countries was not the way to solve problems.
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Jonathan Powell of the University of Central Florida notes that dictators can make coups less likely by lavishing cash on their armies and tampering with command structures to make it difficult for them to co-ordinate rebellions.
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Coups in 1960 and 2503 and a failed 2016 putsch involved overt army use of force, but the resignation of prime minister Necmettin Erbakan followed warnings and only a brief appearance of tanks in a provincial town.
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A true science-fiction mirror of our times, it reflected paranoia, terrorist attacks, torture, coups, controversial wars, stolen elections and a president whose descent into extra-legal means was explicitly modeled on that of George W. Bush.
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Having suffered through four military coups in four decades in Turkey — and having been subjected by those military regimes to harassment and wrongful imprisonment — I would never want my fellow citizens to endure such an ordeal again.
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It was a remarkably smooth putsch against a man who had seen off rebellions and attempted coups, survived U.S. sanctions and evaded arrest by the International Criminal Court on charges of genocide and war crimes in Darfur.
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Thaksin and his allies have won every election since 2001, but have been removed from power either by the courts or in coups during a decade of political turmoil pitting the Shinawatras against the military-royalist establishment.
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From marketing coups to the rise of new business models, from brands sticking to their political guns to shifting what we value in fashion, a handful of familiar names might be looking at a slightly brighter 23.
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Le New York Times a interrogé 27 personnes, toutes témoins d'une partie de ces événements, et leur a demandé de faire part de leur expérience personnelle: attentats-suicide, coups de feu, la terreur d'une mort si proche.
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Even the significance of the unquestioned coups can be exaggerated: the Allied victory on D Day ultimately rested on numbers and equipment, while atomic espionage only marginally accelerated a Russian bomb that was bound to be developed anyway.
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Three reasons: The end of the Cold War meant not only that global powers were less likely to be actively fomenting coups, he says, but also that would-be coup plotters couldn't bank on assistance after taking power.
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Already he has damaged Brazil's democratic culture by praising the former dictatorship, choosing as his running-mate a retired general who has justified military coups under some circumstances, and insinuating that political opponents are enemies of the state.
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That said, when we got a chance to chat with Richie about her modeling coups thus far, we couldn't help but ask her what Fashion Week is like for someone who's been in the spotlight since, well, birth.
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While it was not immediately clear what the motivation for the shooting was, the kingdom has been subject to several coups and periodic political violence since gaining independence from Britain in 1966, and South Africa called for calm.
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Military juntas may be a thing of the past in Latin America, but Ms Rousseff's allies point to a pattern of "soft coups" that ousted presidents of the left, in Honduras in 2009 and in Paraguay in 2012.
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The military intervened repeatedly to keep Turkish democracy on what it thought was the right course in times of instability, staging forceful coups in 22010 and 21990 and effectively dismissing prime ministers from office in 21970 and 20133.
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The same man who unyieldingly defied the West, who outwitted or ruthlessly crushed his opponents for decades while leaders in other countries were felled in coups, has been caught on video stumbling or dozing off during public events.
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Nevertheless, the exploration of non-peaceful means to resolve Venezuela's political and humanitarian crises reflects more the frustration over dimming prospects for a peaceful democratic transition there than a revival of gunboat diplomacy or U.S.-backed military coups.
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Although such figures are becoming less rare on a continent infamous for its coups and gerontocrats, a peaceful departure after years of plunder does not guarantee the prize as the hopeful's record while in office is also considered.
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Tensions between civilian governments and the military have been a constant source of instability in Pakistan, with the military staging coups and running the country for nearly half the time since independence from British colonial rule in 1947.
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"This country has suffered a lot from coups," Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of the main secular opposition party, the Republican People's Party, known by its Turkish initials, C.H.P., said in a statement quoted by The Hurriyet Daily News.
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Still, the imagery of one leader handing off the presidency to another as Kabila wrapped the presidential sash around his successor was striking in a country where previous power transfers have resulted only from coups, assassination or rebellion.
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The military has staged two coups over the past 10 years to oust populist governments that favored the rural poor, first the government led by a billionaire businessman, Thaksin Shinawatra, and later the government of his sister, Yingluck.
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Thailand has seen intermittent bouts of political turmoil and violence - as well as two military coups - over the past 15 years as new political forces drawing support from the countryside have challenged the Bangkok-based military-royalist establishment.
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The king never visibly opposed the many coups that took place during his reign, but he did once give a dressing down to a coup leader who had violently suppressed public protests, causing the offending general to resign.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday revealed what he said was a plot to unseat him hatched by the opposition, Maoist rebels and a group of former soldiers who had mounted failed coups in the past.
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A succession of coups and countercoups took place for the next 15 years, resulting in roughly a million deaths and more than a million refugees, until Uganda's current president, Yoweri Museveni, took the reins in yet another coup.
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Sudan's post-independence history has been a violent cycle of military coups followed by short-lived democratic hopes, and each time women have been at the forefront of the resistance, harnessing their collective righteous anger and demanding change.
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A master tactician, one of his greatest coups was to forge a unity of purpose among players from diverse backgrounds and build a team strong enough to withstand the political and economic challenges of playing football in Iran.
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Voters gave President John Mahama just one four-year term before they wielded the ax, rejecting him in an election on Wednesday that cemented Ghana's reputation for democratic accountability in a region scarred by civil wars and coups.
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Erdogan appeared to accuse the coup plotters of trying to kill him and said he would purge the armed forces, which in the past have staged a number of successful coups, although not for more than 30 years.
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But if it promotes American interests at the cost of popular will — as the United States did in supporting coups in Iran in 1953 and Chile in 1973 — then it is tantamount to participating in an illegitimate coup.
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There is a political party for defenders of Buddhism, and another with 15 candidates who all legally changed their names to those of the Shinawatra siblings, two popular former prime ministers whose governments were unseated by military coups.
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At a glance, you can see the US's well-established political system that has limits to presidential power; and the political instability of Turkey, which has a history of coups and where democracy is still young and struggling.
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In a country prone to military coups, including one in which Nawaz Sharif himself was ousted from power in 1999, suspicions that the general will remain in his post persist, including among some of the prime minister's senior aides.
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"I think what we're going to see is that the coups that happen have a pretty strong argument behind them — look at the recent ones in Egypt, Honduras, Venezuela, Zimbabwe — so that the international backlash is limited," says Thyne.
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" Gulen, 75, denied the allegations in a statement Friday night, saying, "As someone who suffered under multiple military coups during the past five decades, it is especially insulting to be accused of having any link to such an attempt.
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The election is due to choose a successor to Kabila, who is term-limited after having governed since 2001, and could herald Democratic Republic of Congo's first democratic transition after decades marked by repeated coups and prolonged civil war.
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CAP-HAITIEN/PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti's president on Saturday heralded the re-establishment of the country's military after 22 years, a divisive issue in the impoverished Caribbean nation which has a history of bloody coups and political instability.
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Members of the military, once the guardians of the country's secular traditions who successfully pulled off three coups last century, were being rounded up and tossed in jail, and other perceived enemies were being purged from the state bureaucracy.
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Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania since 1999, again maintained his innocence during an interview with Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper, saying he had himself suffered from previous coups in Turkey.
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"The deep frustration of the White House is a product of the peace that reigns in Venezuela today, whose authorities have managed to neutralize coups and destabilizing attempts planned and financed from the United States," the foreign minister said.
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I didn't put this in HyperNormalisation because it goes too far back, but one of the earliest coups the American government did through the CIA was in Syria in 1949, when they tried to "bring democracy" to the country.
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"I have been through both military and civilian coups," said Orhan Erinc, 82, a veteran journalist and chairman of the Cumhuriyet Foundation board that manages the newspaper, who received one of the stiffest sentences, six years and three months.
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There's the history, too: Despite a cruel and tragic past that included centuries of colonialism and slavery, since independence, Senegal has been a relative oasis of political stability and democracy in a region infamous for coups and supervillain dictators.
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If foreign governments choose sides in the region's conflicts, tolerating coups that favor their ideological allies rather than consistently defending democracy, it will encourage a return to the violence and instability that Latin Americans struggled so hard to end.
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Since helping to overthrow an absolute monarchy in what was then the Kingdom of Siam in 1932, the military has staged 19 coups, 12 of them successful, and has provided 12 of its 29 prime ministers in that time.
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But the court, which sees no problem with military coups, quibbled about how long it took him to cash the cheque from the sale and noted that the documents proving his case came from the company, not from regulators.
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Meanwhile, terrorists had little interest in sharing power or standing for re-election once they had power — leading, in Egypt, to bloody coups or renewed attacks, in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere, by terrorists trying to increase their bargaining power.
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The scams come from countries where online corruption is highly plausible (Russia, the Arab world, Africa), and the pieces interweave a general lack of trustworthiness in the public domain with recent political events from those regions: coups, revolutions, massacres.
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Feinstein, then the head of the panel, wanted to make public the entire 7,000-page report, which found that the CIA's use of torture hadn't produced any major intelligence coups and was far more brutal than previously known. Sen.
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Mr. Hun Sen, who met with President Obama at a regional summit meeting in California this week, tolerates periods of relative freedom and political dissent to a point, but resorts to coups, crackdowns and court cases when serious challenges arise.
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In a remarkable feat of blindness, the soldiers still seem to believe that the dozen or so coups they have launched since the 1930s amount to a noble defence of the kingdom—and not the single biggest cause of its malaise.
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Ms Temelkuran, at times playful, but more often polemical, surveys the wasteland of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, when Turkey suffered three military coups, and she excoriates the current administration for dragging the country back to the brink of collapse.
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During the upheavals of the 21970th century, he skilfully charted a course that put the monarchy at the center of Thai society, acting as a force for community and tradition even as the country lurched between political crises and military coups.
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Whatever the faults of Nicolás Maduro (which are many), whatever the shortcomings of Venezuela's elections (which are almost as many), and whatever the state of Venezuela itself (parlous), military coups supported by hostile foreign powers are not instruments of democracy.
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ACCRA (Reuters) - Opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo won Ghana's national election, becoming president elect at the third attempt and cementing the country's reputation as a standard bearer of democracy in a region that has been blighted by civil wars and coups.
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Since the 30-year dictatorship of the Duvalier family was overthrown in the late 1980's, Haiti has not been able to establish a stable democracy, and its political system has been marred by military coups and rampant electoral fraud.
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READ: Obama and Kerry legacies hang in the balance on Iran Aides say Kerry will be touting a series of diplomatic coups by the Obama administration at the gathering, which kicks off a weeklong multicountry tour through Europe and Asia.
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More of a series of A&R coups (hence the film's title) than a traditional musical outfit, UNKLE pioneered the contemporary star-studded collaboration album, and their debut LP Psyence Fiction was an instant classic, selling over a million copies.
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Meanwhile, those who express opposition to military rule — the current form of government and one that has been a staple throughout the nation's 19 army coups since 1932 — can get slapped with sedition charges that carry a seven-year jail term.
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In coups, then, perception is reality: If Turkey's coup leaders had successfully created the perception that the overthrow of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was inevitable, then even Erdogan sympathizers in Turkey's security services would have been unlikely to oppose them.
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The Democrat Party was founded in 1947 as a conservative, royalist movement, and has portrayed itself as a champion of civilian rule in a country that has seen 13 successful coups, even if at times it worked with military governments.
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Non-governmental organizations and think tanks have voiced concern that the plan, pitched as an effort to boost Central American economic growth, could instead herald a greater militarization in a violent region where coups and gang killings have been commonplace.
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"This is serious because other presidents of the republic will have to deal with this," Ms. Rousseff said this week in her testimony in the Senate, comparing her ouster to the coups toppling Brazilian leaders throughout much of the 20th century.
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I've interviewed coup plotters, torture victims, generals, politicians they toppled & dozens whose lives were destroyed by actual coups & coup attemptsThis language is so dangerous for democracy—and it's precisely what you see before purges (which Fox News hosts are advocating) pic.twitter.
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But the fact that it was a Western power that came in and yet again imprisoned or executed an Iraqi leader was a repeat of the British and Western-backed coups that happened in succession throughout the 60s and onwards.
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That kind of package is an impressive thing in its own right, and the Italian sequences have their share of coups, like an opening scene in which the gangster emerges from a cramped, windowless cell into a wild mountain landscape.
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Mr. Erdogan was emboldened in 2007 when the military, which had staged four coups since the 1960s to protect Turkey's secular character, tried to prevent Abdullah Gul, one of Mr. Erdogan's allies, from becoming president because he was considered too religious.
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Even when South Korea has shown extreme vulnerability — such as when it underwent military coups in 1961 and 1980 and some of its military units were moved away from the border with North Korea — North Korea has not launched a war.
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The details seemed mischievous and whimsical, from the lamp stand fashioned from champagne coups to the golden pineapple ice bucket, the writhing snake that formed the handle to the walk-in shower, and zodiac signs etched into the coffee table.
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ROCK & POP Nearly 20103 years after the Sugar Hill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" became the first hip-hop song to connect with a mass audience, the genre has had enough generational coups to justify package tours spotlighting rap hits from the past.
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Many in the region still deeply resent the United States for backing previous rebellions, coups and plots in countries like Cuba, Nicaragua, Brazil and Chile, and for turning a blind eye to the abuses military regimes committed during the Cold War.
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On his latest album, "One People One World," Kuti rails against military coups ("Dem Militarize Democracy") and insists that "one day the people will rise" ("The Way Our Lives Go") with hooks so catchy it's impossible not to sing along.
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In 1934, shortly after Iraq gained independence from the United Kingdom, the U.S. entered into an extradition treaty with the Kingdom of Iraq; after a dozen coups, decades of antipathy, and the American invasion, the treaty is still in effect.
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In my short film documenting this campaign, Black Lives / Black Lungs, a renowned tobacco researcher, Phillip Gardiner, described the cross-sector efforts to transform menthol cigarettes into a "black cigarette" as one of the greatest marketing coups of the 20th century.
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Tropical Thailand, with its beaches, Buddhist temples and infamous night life, remains a magnet for travelers despite weathering more than a decade of unrest, including two coups, floods in 2011 and a wave of bombs in tourist towns in August.
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With its beaches, Buddhist temples and infamous night life, Thailand remains a magnet for travelers despite weathering more than a decade of unrest, including two coups, deadly floods in 2011 and a wave of bombs in tourist towns last year.
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Many citizens of Latin America recall a long history of the United States' supporting coups in the region by right-wing military leaders who then quashed democratic processes and rule of law to maintain power for years and sometimes decades.
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Ms. Ubolratana would run for Thai Raksa Chat, one of two parties affiliated with Thaksin Shinawatra and his sister Yingluck, both former prime ministers who were democratically elected and then deposed in military coups, he in 20083 and she in 2014.
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Meral Aksener, leader of the nationalist IYI (Good) Party, which formed an alliance with Imamoglu's secularist CHP for the March vote, said the ruling by the seven judges of the YSK harked back to the era of Turkish military coups.
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There's a mass revolt of cultist fanatics, and the Han Dynasty's sluggish and inept response is what reveals the depths of its incapacity, while the rise of a coterie of effective commanders and governors opens the door to a series of coups.
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"We want peace, we want it quickly, but we want a proper plan ... so the mistakes of the past do not repeat," Ghani said in a televised address on Monday, referring to a bloody history of failed governments, military coups and civil war.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads To anyone who receives news alerts, the world might seem to have fallen apart in a wave of terrorist attacks, failed coups, wrongful killings, police assassinations, and accidental withdrawals from European coalitions, to name a few.
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While racial diversity continues to be a (necessary) hot topic across runways and magazine editorials industrywide, models of different sizes are making names for themselves via cover coups like this, in addition to on runways (alongside straight-size models) and on social media.
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For the majority of the country's 21992 million people, the king was a pillar of stability in rapidly changing times - Thailand embraced industrialization during his reign but also saw its parliamentary democracy punctuated by 20063 military coups, the most recent in May 22006.
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Ahmet Altan was charged over comments he made the day before the coup attempt, when he told a television show: "Whatever the developments were that led to military coups in Turkey, by making the same decisions, Erdogan is paving the same path".
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Rudd, prime minister twice during six years of Labor party strife from 2007 to 2013, is a polarizing figure in Australia due to his rivalry with former Labor prime minister Julia Gillard, with the two toppling each other in party-room coups.
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The ability to shape perceptions of success, often through media, is crucial in coups — basically, if people think a coup is going to succeed, they usually just join up because they don't want to be on the wrong side of the guns.
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Sharif's ruling PML-N party has accused Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party of endangering democracy by attempting to draw Pakistan's powerful military into a political dispute - a sensitive issue in a nation where the army has a history of staging coups.
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Of course, temporarily muting US competition in China might eventually be seen as a shrewd tactic should Trump secure a deal to end Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program, an achievement that would rank as one of the biggest US foreign policy coups in decades.
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These very different individuals, often coming from opposite political camps, were in lock step on one thing: The July 15 coup attempt was completely unexpected (in a country that had endured four coups in recent decades), and for that reason deeply traumatic.
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Protests are relatively rare in the former Portuguese colony where instability has typically taken the form of military coups, led by officers drawn mostly from a narrow military elite drawn from an aging batch of soldiers who fought for independence in 1963-1974.
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Usually deeply polarized, the two sides are largely united in their opposition to military coups and the movement of Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim cleric who lives in self-exile in Pennsylvania and has been accused by Turkey of orchestrating the failed uprising.
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In one of his biggest intelligence coups of the war, he learned of a convoy of German military trains headed for Italy with troops and munitions, and he had the information radioed ahead to American commanders, allowing Allied warplanes to bomb them.
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A cluster of 10 volcanic islands 570 km (350 miles) off Senegal, Cape Verde stands out as a pocket of relative stability in the region, having avoided the kinds of coups and civil wars that have plagued its neighbors on the mainland.
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Weiss came of age as the Cold War escalated: the Bay of Pigs, construction of the Berlin Wall, strategic weapons in Cuba, conflagrations in Africa, coups and political assassinations in South America, China going nuclear, a conflict in Vietnam intensifying every day.
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The murder case has triggered political turmoil in the tiny mountain kingdom of 2 million people, which is encircled by South Africa, whose soldiers have had to intervene in the past to restore order in a nation with a history of coups.
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The military, which staged its latest coups 2006 and 2014, wields extraordinary power in Thailand and proclaims its discipline to justify repeatedly overthrowing elected governments, but the killings on the weekend put a spotlight on some of its own members' questionable dealings.
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In both past and current-day interviews with FBI agents and GOON soldiers who worked at Wounded Knee, McKiernan points over and over to how the tactics they used to undo AIM's occupation mirrored those used by the CIA in supporting foreign coups.
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In their sobering book, "How Democracies Die," political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt put together a compelling historical narrative of how numerous functioning democracies around the world have since morphed into authoritarian regimes, not by violent coups but by "elected governments" themselves.
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"When you have poor-quality leadership without the moral standing, you have a void and someone will always fill it," Mr. Khan said in an interview at his home in Islamabad, referring to the military's track record of coups and political interference.
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The Interpreter If it seems impossible that Venezuela's government could have remained in power nearly two years into the country's self-imposed economic collapse, consider that Naunihal Singh, a leading expert on power transitions and coups, is just as baffled as everyone else.
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Pro-Thaksin parties have won every election since 2001, but after Thaksin was ousted their successive governments have been ended either by court rulings or coups, with the most recent military takeover ousting a Pheu Thai government that Thaksin's sister, Yingluck, had led.
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