The goal of this project is to gather info on coups in a holistic manner, drawing from both historical examples and political writings.

While Africa has been the historical reference for coups, this project will mainly focus on Central Asia and the Middle East, as the nature of coups has been transformed by recent technological changes. The Middle East vis-a-vis the Arab spring, and the central Asian revolutions in the early 00’s present more recent examples of coups.

• Coup d’État by Edward N. Luttwak
• Seizing Power: The Strategic Logic of Military Coups by Naunihal Singh
• Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest by Zeynep Tufekci
• Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia by Alexander A. Cooley, John Heathershaw
• Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia by Alexander Cooley
• Aftershocks: Great Powers and Domestic Reforms in the Twentieth Century by Seva Gunitsky

• Central Asia
• Middle East
• Great power influences