Coup Theories and Officers' Motives : : Sri Lanka in Comparative Perspective / / Donald L. Horowitz.
Donald Horowitz presents a case study of an attempted military coup in Sri Lanka. On the basis of interviews with twenty-three participants in this attempted coup--a mine of information rarely available for a study like this--he provides first-hand evidence of the way officers' motives interact...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1981 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Preface
- A Note on Terminology
- 1. Coup Theory: The Matter of Motive
- 2. Sri Lanka Society and Political Change
- 3. The Armed Forces: Their Construction and Reconstruction
- 4. The Conspirators: A Profile
- 5. Personal, Familial, and Factional Motives
- 6. Corporate Motives
- 7. Social Allegiances and Segmental Motives
- 8. The Political System and Coup Motives
- 9. Interpreting Intervention: Sri Lanka and the Developing World
- Appendix: A Note on the Interviews
- Index