Anti-Coup

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Political Science

Authors: Gene Sharp, Bruce Jenkins In Year : 2003

Book Language: English

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The Anti Coup
How coups operate
When are coups likely to occur?
Support for coups
Attempts to prevent coups
Coups have been defeated
Anti-coup defense
The putschists require...
Direct defense of the society
The need for preparations
The civilian defenders' aims
Resistance: general and organized
The importance of strategy
Anti-coup weapons
Guidelines for general resistance
Treatment of the usurper's troops and functionaries
Facing attack: obstruction and communication
Facing attack: repudiation and rejection
Blocking control by the putschists
Defying repression and intimidation
The importance of nonviolent discipline
International support
Shifts in strategy during the struggle
A durable success
In the case of need for long-term defense
Collapsing the coup
Deterring coups d'etat
Promoting an anti-coup defense
Adopting an anti-coup defense
Preparations by the civil institutions
Government initiated preparations
Possible legislation and other plans to mobile defense
Other types of preparations
Consequences of an anti-coup defense
Appendix One
Appendix Two
Albert Einstein Institution Mission Statement / About the Authors

Supporters of political democracy, human rights, and social justice have good reasons to be alarmed about coups d'état. These abrupt seizures of the state apparatus have occurred with great frequency in recent decades. Coups have overthrown established constitutional democratic systems of government, halted movements toward greater democracy, and have imposed brutal and oppressive regimes. Coups d'état are one of the main ways in which new dictatorships are established. Coups may also precipitate civil wars and international crises. Coups remain a major unsolved defense problem. This book describes an anti-coup policy focused on defense of the society by the society itself, using non-violent methods. The two basic principles of anti-coup defense promoted in this book are to: 1) deny legitimacy to the putschists, and 2) to resist the putschists with noncooperation and defiance. (Summary by Benjamin Gittins)