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Coup Theories and Officers' Motives: Sri Lanka in Comparative Perspective
By (Author) Donald L. Horowitz
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
321.09
Paperback
258
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
340g
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 with social and political conditions to foster coup at