Promoting Professionalism, Provoking Precarity: Security Assistance and the Risk of Military Coups.
When does foreign military assistance actually protect recipient governments, and when does it catalyze coups against them? In Adam Casey's Up in Arms: How Military Aid Stabilizes—and Destabilizes—Foreign Autocrats, great powers come preloaded with military models from their own history. These have...
| Publicado en: | Political Science Quarterly (Oxford University Press / USA) Vol. 141; no. 3; pp. 637 - 647 |
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Fall2026
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