the Obama Administration has purposefully declined to state whether this event was “a coup d’état or decree in which the military plays a decisive role,” because an affirmative answer would legally require the suspension of aid And yet there is no denying that the military overthrew President Morsi in a coup, according to any conventional definition of the term. From my perspective as an academic who specializes in understanding military coups (I’ve interviewed participants in ten coup attempts, researched case histories of hundreds of coup attempts, and crunched the numbers on all four hundred and seventy-one coup attempts in the latter half of the twentieth century), there was in fact very little unusual about this particular coup This coup’s execution also followed the classic formula, with a general on television stating that the military as a whole has decided to remove the incumbent and has done so for the benefit of the nation. Such an announcement, which appears at first to be merely an announcement of the coup’s successful conclusion, is actually its key moment, with control over broadcasting facilities a necessary element in the success of almost every coup attempt. #where_is_my_vote #prodemocracy #Military_Coup #يسقط_يسقط_حكم_العسكر #يسقط_يسقط_إعلام_العسكر newyorker/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/07/egypts-ordinary-coup.html
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