Samuel Decalo presents detailed evidence from Dahomey, Togo, Congo/Brazzaville, and Uganda that African military coups are engineered by coteries of cliques composed of ambitious officers seeking self-advancement. He successfully refutes prevailing theories that military rule has fostered socioeconomic or political development or stability.
- ISBN10 0300019424
- ISBN13 9780300019421
- Publish Date 1 January 1976
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 October 2003
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English